Download W11 Ecology Test Prep W11 Ecology Test Prep

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 Check your bottles… You have a couple minutes.
 Lots happened over the weekend to most of your
bottles.
Unit Exam Preparation
 Vocabulary:
 Niche
 Food web
 Community
 Herbivore
 Producer
 Calorie
 Nitrogen cycle
 Nitrification
 Prey
 Exponential growth
 Limiting factors
food chain
population
trophic level (biomass)
Carnivore
Consumer
Carbon cycle
nitrogen fixing bacteria
biotic potential
predator
carrying capacity
Concepts
 Interdependence in ecosystems – food chains and food
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webs.
Energy flows through food webs and is lost to heat and
metabolism as it passes through each trophic level. (10%
rule)
Matter is recycled in ecosystems. Carbon, Nitrogen,
Phosphorus.
Populations of organisms grow exponentially if there are no
factors limiting their growth.
Limiting factors such as PREDATION, FOOD
AVAILABILITY, COMPETITION AND DISEASE limit the
size of a population. (constraint)
Resources
 Book: 506-511, 514-515, 518-519, 525-532, 535-536
 Videos: Crash course
 Carbon cycle
 Nitrogen cycle
 Ecosystem ecology
 Population ecology
 Community ecology (a little bit)
 Human population growth
Actions
 REPETITION! – watch small, important, segments of
the videos over and over and over and over and over
and over and over and over and over…………………..
 EXPLAIN OUT LOUD – explain a concept out loud to
someone. DESCRIBE and EXPLAIN important graphs
and diagrams to someone.
 VIDEO RECORD YOURSELF – Explain concepts on
video and then WATCH IT!
 Only YOU can make yourself adopt these habits.
Will you do it?