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: 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
