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Unit Water Ecology
Test -
Reading – Chapter 8.3
Next year think about adding labs from the Carrying Capacity Book
Date
3-15
Th
Homework Assigned
Ischia Island lab analysis and graph,
Ecology Homework #1
3-26
M
Food Chain Checkers lab analysis and
graph, Ecology Homework #2
3-28
W
Building an energy pyramid packet
(finish all)
3-30
W
Carrying Capacity Packet (finish all)
2-10
F
1-14
T
1-16
Th
2-22
W
2-24
F
2-28
T
3-1
Th
In-Class
Caterpillar Video Clip (species interactions), Lecture
guide Ecology (biotic, abiotic, interdependence,
ecological levels, habitat, niche,) Next year: create
abiotic, biotic sort to replace ABCD cards in ppt.,
habitat vs. niche activity
Watch Ischia island video clip (stop at the bubbleswhat are these-CO2) How might this effect the
organisms
Back from spring break:
Review vocabulary with card sort (1st sort by
producer/consumer/decomposer, then sort
consumers by carn, omni, herb), Ecology Quiz #1, Food
chain checkers
Ecology Quiz #2, Building an energy pyramid lecture
guide-food chains/webs, Energy bean demo, Energy
Calculations (compare to calculating grade), water
demo, species interactions video clips-symbiosis,
EXTRA TIME: collapse of the shark & sharks in our
future video clips
Ecology Quiz #3, Potential Population growth (Count
corn kernels, create graphs- bacteria & human
population=exponential graph), Could population
growth continue like this? (discussion), Show carrying
capacity picture and complete worksheet (limiting
factors), analyze graphs (in groups or as homework)
Synthetic sea plastics in the open
ocean
Analysis of Data
Populations lab, Species interactions
Succession & Review
Test
Vocabulary –
Abiogenesis
Spontaneous Generation
Biogenesis
Radiometric Dating
Half-Life
Adaptation
Transitional species
Vestigial Structure
Artificial Selection
Stabilizing Selection
Sympatric Speciation
Evolution
Fossil
Biogeography
Convergent Evolution
Coevolution
Disruptive Selection
Gradualism
Strata
Law of Superposition
Isolation
Divergent Evolution
Gene Pool
Directional Selection
Punctuated Equilibrium
Natural Selection
Speciation
Homology(Homologous)
Adaptive Radiation
Gene Flow
Allopatric Speciation
Concepts & Review –
A.
Biogenesis
1. Explain the early experiments to prove Biogenesis and why they were deemed inconclusive.
2. Explain Pasteur’s experiment and why it was deemed conclusive.
B.
Earth’s History
1. What is Radioactive (or Radiometric) dating?
2. What does Half-Life mean?
3. How old is the universe?
4. How old is the earth?
5. What was Oparin’s Hypothesis?
6. What gases did Oparin say were in the Earth’s early atmosphere?
7. Who proved Oparin’s Hypothesis, how, and what molecules did they make?
C.
The Idea of Evolution
1. Summarize the history of scientific ideas about evolution.
2. Explain Lamarck’s Theory of Acquired Characterics (or traits).
3. What was Darwin’s main contribution to the evolution debate?
(3 premises and natural selection)
D.
Evidence of Evolution
1. Explain how fossils present evidence of evolution.
2. Describe the Law of Superposition.
3. What is a Transitional species?
4. Explain how homology presents evidence of evolution.
5. Explain how vestigial structures present evidence of evolution.
6. Explain how DNA comparison presents evidence of evolution.
E.
Mechanisms of Evolution
1. Explain how Biogeography presents a mechanism for evolution to occur.
2. Explain how adaptation presents a mechanism for evolution to occur.
F.
Evolution in Action
1. Contrast Convergent and Divergent Evolution.
2. How do Darwin’s finches illustrate Adaptive Radiation?
3. Compare and contrast artificial and natural selection.
4. How does Coevolution cause the one species to act upon the evolution of another?
G.
Genetic Equilibrium
1. Explain the difference between Gene Flow and Gene Pool.
2. Explain the three types of Natural Selection.
3. Explain the difference between allopatric and sympatric evolution.
4. Explain the difference between gradualism and punctuated equilibrium.
H.
Human Evolution