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Ecology Objectives
U.Q.: How are all environments connected?
AoI: Environments
Objectives
1. Identify the levels of organization that ecologists study.
2. Trace the flow of energy through living systems using
food webs and food chains, pyramids.
3. Describe how carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles through
living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
4. Understand how organisms can have relationships in an
ecosystem: Examples: Symbiosis ( mutualism
commensalism, parasitism) and predation (IV.C.3)
5. The student will predict and analyze how a change in an
ecosysytem, resulting from natural causes, changes in
climate, human activity or introduction of invasive
species, can affect both the number of organisms in a
population and the biodiversity of species in the
ecosystem. (IV.C.4)
6. Understand how the world’s ecosystems are broken into
biomes that contain similar communities and climates,
7. Be able to predict how an ecosystem will go through
succession.
Assignments and Resources
Scavenger hunt, p 21
Food chain worksheet, chapter 3-2, corn and
chicken food chain activity, Energy Transfer lab
Carbon cycle worksheet, chapter 3-3
Symbiosis article and worksheet, chapter 4-2
Acid Base introduction (for acid rain
understanding), Global Ecology assignment, p 43
in text
Biome worksheet, chapter 4-3
Succession worksheet, chapter 4-2
Ecology Objectives
U.Q.: How are all environments connected?
AoI: Environments
Objectives
1. Identify the levels of organization that ecologists study.
2. Trace the flow of energy through living systems using
food webs and food chains, pyramids.
3. Describe how carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles through
living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
4. Understand how organisms can have relationships in an
ecosystem: Examples: Symbiosis ( mutualism
commensalism, parasitism) and predation (IV.C.3)
5. The student will predict and analyze how a change in an
ecosysytem, resulting from natural causes, changes in
climate, human activity or introduction of invasive
species, can affect both the number of organisms in a
population and the biodiversity of species in the
ecosystem. (IV.C.4)
6. Understand how the world’s ecosystems are broken into
biomes that contain similar communities and climates,
7. Be able to predict how an ecosystem will go through
succession.
Assignments and Resources
Scavenger hunt, p 21
Food chain worksheet, chapter 3-2, corn and
chicken food chain activity, Energy Transfer lab
Carbon cycle worksheet, chapter 3-3
Symbiosis article and worksheet, chapter 4-2
Acid Base introduction (for acid rain
understanding), Global Ecology assignment, p 43
in text
Biome worksheet, chapter 4-3
Succession worksheet, chapter 4-2