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Biology Calendar
Monday
Sept. 2015
Tuesday
7
Labor Day
Holiday
Wednesday
8A
Intro to Ecology
Invasive Species
Vocab 11-27
Nutrient Cycles
Vocab 11-27
Nutrient Cycles
HW:
1) Vocab chart 1-10
2) Finish poster
HW:
1) Vocab chart 1-10
2) Finish poster
HW:
HW:
1) Current Event
2) EQ #1
15B
Communitites
Population Wolf/deer
Communitites
Population
Present current event
Present current event
HW: EQ# 2
21B
Lab
HW:
1)
TBA
Friday
2nd Rally
10A
Intro to Ecology
Invasive Species
14A
HW: EQ# 2
Thursday
9B
1)
2)
Current Event
EQ #1
PDD 16A
17B
Succession
Ecological Survey
Succession
Ecological Survey
HW: EQ #3
HW: EQ #3
11B
18A
Lab
HW: TBA
22A
23B
24A
25B
Finish Lab
Review
Finish Lab
Review
Ecology Test
Notebook Check
Ecology Test
Notebook Check
HW: Study for test
HW: Study for test
Notebook check
Notebook check
Introduction to
Biochem Unit
Introduction to Biochem
Unit
Vocabulary
1. Ecology
2. Ecosystem
6. heterotroph 7. autotroph
11. Energy pyramid
15. biomass
16. Biomass pyramid
19. Biodiversity 20. Mutualism
24. immigration
3. habitat
8. Producers
12. Trophic levels
21. parasitism
25. Emigration
4. niche
5. nonnative species
9. Consumers
10. Decomposers
13. biotic factors
14. abiotic factors
17. lichens
18. ecological succession
22. Commensalism
23. Carrying capacity
26. Exponential growth 27. Logistic Growth
Ecology Targets
1.
2.
I can list the 5 levels of organization of ecology.
I can explain why biodiversity leads to the stability of
an ecosystem.
3. I can explain how introduction of nonnative species
can affect an ecosystem.
4. I can explain how bacteria are important in the
nitrogen cycle.
5. I can list how carbon enters and leaves the
atmosphere.
6. I can explain the difference between autotroph and
heterotroph.
7. I can explain how producers and autotrophs are alike.
8. I can explain how consumers and heterotrophs are
alike.
9. I can list the 5 types of consumers and list what they
eat.
10. I can list the different types of decomposers and
explain why they are important to the stability of an
ecosystem.
11. I can explain why producers are important to the
stability of an ecosystem.
12. I can label the different levels of producers and
consumers on a food web.
13. I can identify which trophic level an organism is in.
14. I can explain the direction of energy flow in an
energy pyramid.
15. I can explain what happens to the energy as you go
up an energy pyramid.
16. I can explain ecological succession.
17. I can explain the differences between primary and
secondary succession.
18. I can explain how population size can affect an
ecosystem.
19. I can explain how changes in a population size are
affected by emigration and immigration.
20. I can explain how competition and predation can
affect the size of a population.
Essential Questions:
1) Essential Questions: How do humans have an impact on the diversity and stability of ecosystems?
2) Essential Question: How do matter and energy link organisms to each other and their environments? Why is
sunlight essential to life on Earth?
3) Essential Questions: How can change in one part of an ecosystem affect change in other parts of the
ecosystem?