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APES LEARNING GOAL 01: Species in Ecosystems
Student Progress Chart
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4.0
b
c
3.0
d
2.0
e
f
1.0
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Concept Checklist
For pros and cons focus on environmental and economic
2.0
a
51-53
57-65
b
57-58
91
c
91-95
d
101-106
e
91-93
Discuss producers, consumers, decomposes, and detritivores, and decomposers roles
in the food web or chain (Be able to relate biotic factors and terms such as carnivore,
herbivore, etc.)
Describe what a niche is. Discriminate and explain the difference between a realized
niche and a fundamental niche (Glossary, eorarth.org).
Explain how limiting factors and range of tolerance affect species ability to survive.
Be able to describe the types of species in an ecosystem and their functionality:
keystone (foundation), native, non-native, indicator (Know the words invasive,
foundation and how they relate to the main types)
. Be able to describe the types of species interactions competition, predation,
commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, amenalism
Generalist and specialist species. Be able to discuss their survival rate in various
ecosystems
3.0
f
107-108
g
109-112
h
109-113
J
113
k
113-114
Explain how resources partitioning impacts competition and even natural selection.
Correlate how populations are distributed and dispersed in an ecosystem to partition
resources.
Describe how populations grow and shrink as a value of births, deaths, immigration, and
emigration. Relate age structure and reproductive age to the ability to grow or shrink.
(Know the equations)
Describe carrying capacity and be able to correlate r- selection and k-selection patterns
to logistic(j) and sigmoid(s) growth charts. (First know k and r. Then j and s. Finally put
them together)
Discriminate between density dependent and density independent controls. Be able to
provide examples of each.
Elaborate on the four types of variation in population size and how it relates to its
carrying capacity
4.0 Will be able to use the factor label method to solve math problems related to population growth or
energy transfer in trophic levels. Student can properly depict a food web and properly show transfer of energy