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Topic: Introduction to Ecology
Key Learning(s):
All living things are
interdependent within an ever
changing ecosystem.
M. Snyder and S. Ramsey 2012
Grade: 11-12
Unit Essential Question(s):
1. How are living things interdependent?
2. What are the effects of human actions on the
ecosystem?
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Concept 1: Ecology
Concept 2: Population Dynamics
Concept 3: Flow of Energy
Concept 4: Materials Cycle
4.5.10.D Analyze the relationship between
habitat changes to plant and animal population
fluctuations.
4.1.10.A Examine the effects of limiting factors
on population dynamics.
4.1.10.C Evaluate the efficiency of energy flow
within a food web. Describe how energy is
converted from one form to another as it moves
thorough a food web.
4.1.12 C Research how humans affect the
energy flow within an ecosystem.
4.1.10.B Explain the consequences of
interrupting natural cycles.
Lesson Essential Question:
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Lesson Essential Question:
How do biomes function within the
ecosystem?
How do limiting factors affect
population dynamics?
Explain how the environment
transfers energy in different forms
through food webs.
Why does the earth recycle its
resources?
Vocabulary:
biosphere
biome
biodiversity
community
ecosystem
habitat
population
Vocabulary:
carrying capacity
critical number
dynamic equilibrium
intraspecific competition
interspecific competition
limiting factors
resource partitioning
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
biomass
detritivore
decomposer
energy pyramid
food chain
food web
niche
trophic level
aquifer
infiltration
nitrogen fixation
organic compounds
transpiration
Introduction to Ecology, page 2
Concept 5: Succession
4.1.10.E Analyze how humans influence the
patterns of natural changes in ecosystems over
time.
Concept 6: Introduced, endangered,
and keystone species
4.1.10.A See Concept 2
4.1.12.A Analyze the significance of biological
diversity in an ecosystem
4.5.12.D Analyze the effects of new and
emerging technologies on biodiversity in
specific ecosystems.
4.1.12.E Research solutions addressing
human impacts on ecosystems over time.
Lesson Essential Question:
Lesson Essential Question:
What kind of changes occur in an
ecosystem over time?
How do changes in biodiversity affect
how ecosystems function?
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
climax community
maturity
primary succession
pioneer species
secondary succession
endangered
Endangered Species Act
invasive
keystone species
native
trophic cascade
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