Monday 4/21/2014
Announcements:
Homework/Class Assignments!!
Due Today: Avatar Essay
GRADE CHECKS TODAY!
• AGENDA: Ecology Unit
• Activity: Avatar Essay
• Avatar Essay and Movie
Questions due today for 45
Points
Avatar Movie Essay
Using your notes and movie guide for Avatar, you are to write an essay
incorporating the following ideas and vocabulary:
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How does Pandora compare to Earth? What are its features?
Why did the humans want to take over Pandora?
What resource did the humans want from Pandora?
What were some of the consequences of human infiltration of Pandora?
Why would Jake Sully be considered an invasive species?
What were some things he had to learn to adapt?
Why did the scientists think cutting down the trees in Pandora wasn’t a bad
idea?
8. Why are the trees so important to the Na’vi?
9. How does this film represent ecosystems and ecology?
10. Why did Jake Sully change his mind about taking over Pandora?
Vocabulary to be used at least once:
Organisms, ecosystems, invasive species, species, habitat, resources, population,
community, energy, biosphere,
Tuesday 4/22/2014
Announcements:
Homework/Class Assignments!!
Due Today: Abiotic vs. Biotic
Worksheet
• AGENDA: Ecology Unit
• Notes: Types and Ecology of
Organisms
• Activity: Abiotic vs. Biotic
Worksheet
• Abiotic vs. Biotic Worksheet
due Wednesday/Thursday
4/23-4/24/2014 for 20 Points
TYPES OF ORGANISMS
• AUTOTROPHIC:
-organisms that are able to make their own
food for energy.
EX: plants
• HETEROTROPHIC:
-organisms that consume food for energy.
EX: animals
ECOLOGY OF ORGANISMS
• BIOTIC FACTORS – LIVING components in the
environment.
EX: animals, plants, bacteria…
• ABIOTIC FACTORS- NON-LIVING components
in the environment – physical & chemical
characteristics.
EX: temperature, pH, humidity,
nitrogen..
If someone was talking about the
temperature and the pH levels in a lake,
what type of factors are they talking
about?
ABIOTIC
ECOLOGY OF ORGANISMS
CONTINUED
• HABITAT- WHERE LIVING ORGANISMS LIVE.
• NICHE- A SPECIES WAY OF LIFE, OR THE ROLE THE
SPECIES PLAYS IN ITS ENVIRONMENT.
Thursday/Friday 4/24-4/25/2014
Announcements:
Homework/Class Assignments!!
• Agenda: Ecology
• Notes: Population Sizes
• Activity: Population Size Reading
Assignment
• Population Sizes Reading
Assignment due Today for 40
Points
Population Demography
• The statistical study of populations
• Demos = people
• Graphy = measurement
POPULATION DYNAMICS
• BIRTH RATE= the # of births per yr.
• DEATH RATE=the # of deaths per yr.
• AGE STRUCTURE= distribution of species
ages within a population; this can lead to
life expectancy.
POPULATION GROWTH
• EMIGRATION= Movement of
individuals out of a population
• IMMIGRATION=Movement of
individuals into a population
EXPONENTIAL GROWTH
• If a population does not have any
restrictions, it can continually grow, BUT
in real life, there are limitations such as
food or predator relationships
that prevent a
THIS IS
population
from
KNOWN AS
THE J
growing
exponentially.
CURVE
What Can Limit Growth?
• Limiting factors are factors that limit the growth
of the population.
• Ex: Availability of food, Disease, Predators, Lack of
space, etc.
• These factors cause a S-Shaped growth curve.