Unit #2 - Ecology

Bookwork/Homework
Prentice Hall Biology Ch. 3: The Biosphere - Read pg. 62-82
•Reading & Study Guide A - pg. 25-34

Prentice Hall Biology Ch. 4: Ecosystems & Communities - Read pg. 90-93
•Reading & Study Guide A - pg. 39-40

Prentice Hall Biology Ch. 5: Populations - Read pg. 118-132
•Reading & Study Guide A - pg. 49-55

Classroom Handouts, Notes, & Worksheet



Communities Worksheet
Ecology Crossword Puzzle Worksheet
Energy & Matter In Ecosystems Cornell Notes
Introduction to Ecology Cornell Notes
Populations & Communities Worksheet
Population Ecology Cornell Notes
Population Ecology Crossword Puzzle Worksheet
The Cycles Cornell Notes


Computer & Online Assignments
Food Web Kerplunck


California State Standards
•Students will know a vital part of an ecosystem is the stability of its producers and decomposers.
•Students will know that at each link in a food web some energy is stored in the newly made structures but much energy is dissipated into the environment as heat.  This dissipation may be represented in an energy pyramid.
•Students will know how water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle between abiotic resources and organic matter in the ecosystem and how oxygen cycle through photosynthesis and respiration.
•Students know how fluctuations in population size in an ecosystem are determined by relative rates of birth, immigration, emigration, and deaths.
•Students will know how to analyze changes in an ecosystem resulting from changes in climate, human activity, introduction of nonnative species, or changes in population size.
•Students will know that biodiversity is the sum total of different kinds of organisms and is affected by alteration of habitat.


Extra Credit
•None

Vocabulary
Prentice Hall Biology
The Online Biology Book Glossary
Ch. 46: Population Ecology
Ch. 47: Community & Ecosystem Dynamics

1) Abiotic Factors
2) Autotroph
3) Biome
4) Biosphere
5) Biotic Factors
6) Carnivore
7) Carrying Capacity
8) Chemosynthesis
9) Commensalism
10) Community
11) Consumer
12) Decomposer
13) Detrivore
14) Ecological Pyramid
15) Ecology
16) Ecosystem
 
17) Emigration
18) Food Chain
19) Food Web
20) Herbivore
21) Heterotroph
22) Immigration
23) Limiting Factor
24) Mutualism
25) Niche
26) Omnivore
27) Parastitism
28) Population
29) Producer
30) Species
31) Symbiosis
 

Helpful Links for Unit #2

  1. AboutBiology.com: Land Biomes
  2. Biomes
  3. Blue Planet Biomes
  4. Conservation of Wildlife Resources @ Eastern Kentucky University
  5. DMS Biomes Links Page
  6. Earth Floor- Biomes
  7. Enchanted Learning - Biomes & Habitats
  8. Missouri Botanical Gardens - Biomes of the World
  9. Teacher's First: Biomes of the World
  10. The Virtual Geography Department Project - Major Biomes of the World
  11. WorldBiomes.com
  12. UC Berkely: The World's Biomes
  13. University of Arizona - Biomes