Download Ecology

Decision One: 7th gr Life
Science Curriculum Map
Topic: Ecology
Key Learning(s):
Grade: 7
Unit Essential Question(s):
Ecosystems contain living and
nonliving factors which affect each
other.
Optional
Instructional Tools:
Why is it important to preserve all
components of an ecosystem?
Concept:
Concept:
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Concept:
Biotic and Abiotic
Factors
Organization
Interactions
Limiting Factors/Carrying
Capacity
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do we determine the effects
of biotic and abiotic factors on an
ecosystem?
Lesson Essential Questions:
How do we analyze the different
levels of ecological organization
in a biome?
Lesson Essential Question
How do the interactions of various
organisms affect an ecosystem?
Lesson Essential Questions:
How is carrying capacity modified by a
change in limiting factors?
Vocabulary:
habitat, biotic, abiotic, ecosystem
Other Information:
Vocabulary:
organism, species, population,
community, ecosystem, biome,
biosphere, niche, ecology,
desert, grassland, tropical
rainforest, temperate rainforest,
boreal/taiga, deciduous forest,
tundra, climate
Vocabulary:
predator, prey, competition,
mutualism, commensalism,
parasitism, symbiosis
Vocabulary:
limiting factor, carrying capacity,
population density, birth rate, death
rate, oscillating predator/prey cycle,
fragmentation, invasive species,
cornerstone species
Concept:
Concept:
Flow of Energy and
Matter
Ecological Succession
Lesson Essential Questions:
How can you demonstrate the
flow of energy through an
ecosystem?
Lesson Essential Questions:
How can you create a new
community after an abrupt
change through ecological
succession?
How do the cycles of matter
effect environmental conditions?
Vocabulary:
food web, food chain,
carbon/oxygen/water/nitrogen
cycle, energy pyramid
Other Information:
Vocabulary:
succession, primary/secondary
succession, pioneer species,
pioneer/developmental/climax
community
Concept:
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Lesson Essential Question
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