Ms. Huff-Hill, Biology
April 9, 2020
Kennedy Jones
4/10/20
2nd period
*answers colored in red !
Alabama Course of Study
Standard 7 ) Develop and use models to illustrate examples of ecological hierarchy levels, including
biosphere, biome, ecosystem, community, population, and organism.
Biology Enrichment--Week 1
Student Resources:
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Miller & Levine Biology textbook
: Read sections 3.1 What is Ecology?, p.64-68 and 4.4 Biomes, p.110-116.
Watch these YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRS4F76VCag
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syf2d4cXJRc
Assignments: All assignments must be done independently. DO HONEST
WORK. You WILL NOT receive credit for copied work, plagiarism, or any other
form of dishonesty.
A. Answer the following questions on your paper. Take a picture and send
in the assignment with your name, date and period at the top of your
paper.
Section 3.1 What is Ecology?
1. What are the six different major levels of organization, from smallest to largest, that
ecologists commonly study? Biosphere, Biome, Ecosystem, Community, Population,
and Individual.
2. Give an example of two objects or activities in your life that are interdependent.
Explain your choice. An example could be a tree and sunlight, because the tree
depends on sunlight for energy and food.
3. Is weather a biotic or abiotic factor? Weather is an abiotic factor.
4. How are biotic and abiotic factors related? Different? Biotic factors are living
components of an ecosystem, while Abiotic factors are non-living components of an
ecosystem. The abiotic factors depict what kinds of biotic factors will be present.
5. Suppose you want to know if the water in a certain stream is safe to drink. Which
ecological method(s) would you use in your investigation? Explain your reasoning
and outline your procedure. Experimenting, because testing the water will
accurately prove if the water is safe to drink. Observing the water isn’t very effective
because the water could look one way, smell one way, but taste another way.
Neither will Modeling the water, because you can’t make a prediction without
ranged data. To avoid danger, experimenting the water seems most reasonable.
B. Slide Show Presentation
Create a slide show presentation to model the ecological levels of
organization, p. 64-65.
Directions: Based on your last name, you will use the information in the table to begin
the creation of the slide show. The first slide must have the title (Ecological Levels of
Organization), your name, period and date. The other slides must include the level of
organization, one or two sentence description, and picture of the organism at each
level. Use Figure 3-1 on textbook pages 64-65 as your example.
If your last name begins with…, then use the following. Read the chart from left to right.
Google Slide:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tJ1w0sBvUVIZZeBJbVoh_FuDYzrvBatYaWKlCp
ti9Mo/edit?usp=sharing
Last Name Begins With…
A-B
Ca
Ch-Co
D-G
Ha
He
Ho-Ja
Jo
M-N
P
R-T
W
Your Biome
Tropical Rain Forest
Tropical Dry Forest
Tropical
Grasslands/Savanna
Desert
Temperate Grasslands
Temperate Woodland and
Shrubland
Temperate Forest
Coniferous Forest
Boreal Forest/Taiga
Tundra
Tropical Rain Forest
Temperate Forest
Your Organism
Asian Elephant
Coyote
Zebra
Camel
Bison
Antelope
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Spotted Owl
Lynx
Artic Fox
Macaw
Red-Crowned Crane