Unit 2: Ecology (44 days) Date: 10/11/2013
Key Learning:
Life on Earth depends on interactions among organisms and between
organisms and their environment.
Unit Essential Question:
How does life on Earth depend on interactions among organisms and
between organisms and their environment?
Concept:
Population Ecology
Lesson EQ:
Concept:
Evolution and Community
Ecology
Lesson EQ:
Instructional Tools:
Level of organization flip book, world
population video, Bill Nye populations,
power points, quizlet vocabulary lists,
Planet Earth from Pole to Pole,
symbiosis lab, bottleneck gene lab,
natural selection (Kettlewell) lab,
designs for defense video, wildlife
specimen lab, Bill Nye Food Web, Owl
Pellet lab, Forest food chain game, I am
Legend Clip, Succession flow charts
Concept:
Biomes
Lesson EQ:
How do changes in population size
relate to environmental conditions?
How do organisms affect one
another’s survival and environment?
How does the environment affect
where and how an organism lives?
BIO.B.4.1.1. Describe the levels of ecological
organization (i.e., organism, population,
community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere)
BIO.B.4.2.5. Describe the effects of limiting
factors on population dynamics and potential
species extinction.
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.
4.5.10.D. Analyze the relationship between
habitat changes to plant and animal population
fluctuations.
BIO.B.4.1.1. Describe the levels of ecological
organization (i.e., organism, population,
community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere)
BIO.B.4.2.1. Describe how energy flows
through an ecosystem (e.g., food chains, food
webs, energy pyramids)
BIO.B.4.2.2 Describe biotic interactions in an
ecosystem (e.g., competition, predation,
symbiosis)
3.1.10.C1. Explain the mechanisms of
biological evolution
4.1.10.B.Explain the consequences of
interrupting natural cycles.
4.1.10.C.Evaluate the efficiency of energy flow
within a food web.
4.1.10.E. Analyze how humans influence the
pattern of natural changes (e.g.
primary/secondary succession and
desertification) in ecosystems over time.
BIO.B.4.1.2. Describe the characteristic biotic
and abiotic components of aquatic and
terrestrial ecosystems.
4.5.10. D. Research practices that impact
biodiversity in specific ecosystems.
Vocabulary:
Abiotic factor, age structure,
biosphere, biome, biotic factor,
biotic potential, carrying capacity,
community, density-dependent
factor, density-independent factor,
ecology, ecosystem, emigration,
environment, exponential growth,
generation time, gestation time,
habitat, immigration, limiting
factor, logistic growth, migration
mortality, natality, niche,
organism, population, population
density, population distribution,
population dynamics, population
size, resource, sex ratio, species,
survivorship curve
Vocabulary:
Adaptation, artificial selection, behavioral
adaptation, biodiversity, carnivore,
chemosynthesis, climax community,
coevolution, commensalism, competition,
consumer, decomposer, detritivores,
ecological succession, endangered species,
energy pyramid, evolution, extinct, extinct
species, extirpated, fitness, food chain, food
web, gene, genetic drift, habitat loss,
herbivore, instinct, keystone species,
mimicry, mutualism, natural selection,
nonnative species, omnivore, parasitism,
pioneer species, predator, prey, primary
succession, producer, reflex, resource
partitioning, scavenger, secondary consumer,
secondary succession, speciation, structural
adaptation, survival of the fittest,
sustainability, symbiosis, tertiary consumer,
threatened species, tolerance, trophic level
Vocabulary:
Aquatic ecosystem, biome,
boreal forest, chaparral, climate,
climatograph, coniferous forest,
deciduous forest, desert,
estuaries, forest, grassland,
inland sea, lake, marine,
mountain biome, polar, pond,
river, salinity, savanna,
temperate, terrestrial ecosystem,
tropical, tropical rain forest,
weather, wetland