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Ecology Test Study Guide:
Students will be expected to…
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Identify and interpret ecological pyramids
Interpret nutrient cycle diagrams (carbon, nitrogen)
Interpret population graphs (exponential, logistic)
Identify factors that affect populations and determine if density-dependent or densityindependent
5. Calculate population density, percent energy lost (know formulae!)
6. Identify organisms based on ecological role (e.g. herbivore, carnivore, decomposer…)
7. Interpret a food chain (flow of energy, flow of matter)
8. Understand what happens to energy and matter as they flow through food webs
9. Understand environmental issues: invasive species, deforestation, reintroduced species,
ocean acidification (use chart from project)
10.Identify the stages of succession (pioneer species, climax community, etc…)
11.Identify a species interaction as being mutualism, parasitism, predation, competition or
commensalism.
12.Understand and interpret a lab protocol
13.Analyze and conclude based on data
Important vocabulary:
Autotroph
Biomass
Biome
Biosphere
Birth Rate
Calorie(s)
Carnivore
Carrying Capacity
Chemotroph
Climax Community
Commensalism
Community
Competition
Consumer (1st, 2nd…)
Death Rate
Decomposer
Decomposition
Density-dependent
Density-independent
Deposition
Ecology
Ecosystem
Emigration
Endangered Species
Exponential Growth
Food chain
Food web
Herbivore
Heterotroph
Immigration
Invasive Species
Lichen
Limiting Nutrient
Logistic Growth
Mutualism
Omnivore
Parasitism
Photosynthesis
Pioneer Species
Population
Population Density
Predation
Producer
Reintroduced Species
Respiration
Species
Succession
Sustainable Solution
Top-level (apex) carnivore
Trophic Level