Download Ecology, Biomes, Food Webs Unit Review

Buggé/Zubrzycki: Unit 2 Review
Ecology, Biomes, Food Webs Unit Review
Water Quality Tests
What do results for each of the following tests mean?
• Dissolved Oxygen
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• Temperature
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• Turbidity
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Leaf Identification
Be able to identify the following types of leaves:
• Maple
• Oak
• Pine
• Fern
Vocabulary
• Ecosystem
• Biotic Factors
• Abiotic Factors
• Organism
Nitrogen
Phosphate
pH
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Ash
Poison Ivy
Holly
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Species
Population
Community
Habitat
Biogeochemical Cycles
• Understand the basic movement of matter and energy through each cycle
• Know the answers to the starred ** questions on the cycle review sheets (answers
posted online)
o Water Cycle
o Phosphorous Cycle
o Carbon Cycle
o Nitrogen Cycle
Soil
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Horizons
o Definition and Layers
o B: Subsoil
o O: Humus
o C: Rock Particles
o A: Topsoil
o R: Bedrock
Soil Profile (be able to identify or draw horizons into a soil profile)
Soil Texture
Sand vs Loamy Sand vs Silt vs Clay (use the flow chart)
Soil Tests
What do the results for each of the following tests mean?
o Nitrogen
o pH
o Phosphorous
o Potassium
Buggé/Zubrzycki: Unit 2 Review
Ecology
• What is Ecology?
• What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
• Be able to identify the following parts of a food chain/food web:
o Producer
o Secondary Consumer
o Consumer
o Tertiary Consumer
o Carnivore
o Decomposer
o Herbivore
• Biomes
o Be able to differentiate between factors for each of the following biomes.
Use your project presentation table, the projects online, your textbook, and
any Internet sources to understand the climate, temperature, precipitation,
soil, plants and animals, and human impact.
o Terrestrial Biomes
§ Tundra
§ Deciduous Forest
§ Taiga
§ Desert
§ Rainforest
§ Grasslands
o Aquatic Biomes
§ What determine the type of organisms in an aquatic ecosystem?
§ What are the contributing factors?
§ Plankton, Nekton, Benthos
§ Be able to differentiate between freshwater and marine ecosystems
§ Freshwater Ecosystems
• Lakes and
• Freshwater
Ponds
Wetlands
• Marshes
• Rivers
• Swamps
§ Marine Ecosystems
• Coastal
• Barrier
Wetlands
Islands
• Estuaries
• Coral
Reefs
• Salt
Marshes
• Oceans
• Mangrove
Swamps