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APES TARGETS
Unit 3: Ecology and Humans
Unit Test Analysis
Chapter 3: Evolution, Biodiversity, and Population Ecology
Target
3.1 I can explain the process of natural selection, including how
natural selection drives genetic variation.
3.2 I can explain how selective pressures for the environment
influence adaptation and cite evidence for natural selection.
3.3 I can describe the ways in which evolution influences
biodiversity, including examples of different modes of speciation.
3.4 I can list evidence provided by the fossil record.
3.5 I can discuss reasons for species extinction and mass
extinction events.
3.6 I can explain how the interaction between speciation and
extinction determines Earth’s biodiversity.
3.7 I can difference the focus of population, community and
ecosystem ecology.
3.8 I can explain how organisms maximize survival and
reproduction rates through a habitat, niche and specialization.
3.9 I can outline the characteristics of populations that help
predict population growth.
3.10 I can access logistic growth, carrying capacity, limiting
factors, and density dependent and independent factors.
3.11 I can explain how an organisms biotic potential influences
the growth rate of a population.
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3.12 I can identify efforts and challenges involved in the
conservation of biodiversity.
3.13 I can graphically represent the differences between
directional, stabilizing, and disruptive selection.
3.14 I can interpret and create survivorship curves for all three
types of populations, as well as logistic growth curves.
3.15 I can compute the natural rate of population growth and
the overall population growth rate.
Chapter 4: Species Interactions and Community Ecology (through Biomes)
Target
4.4 I can compare and contrast the major types of species
interactions.
4.5 I can characterize feeding relationships and energy flow,
using them to construct tropic levels and food webs.
4.6 I can distinguish characteristics of a keystone species.
4.7 I can characterize succession, community change, and the
debate over the nature of communities.
4.8 I can perceive and predict the potential impacts of invasive
species in communities.
4.9 I can explain the goals and methods of restoration ecology.
4.10 Using data from a predator-prey system I can create and
interpret a pair cycle graph.
4.11 I can interpret the flow and energy in a food web.
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Unit Test Analysis
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Unit Test Analysis
Chapter 5: Environmental Systems and Ecosystem Ecology
Target
5.1 I can describe the nature of environmental systems.
5.2 I can explain the interaction of the environmental systems
that make up the Mississippi watershed and lead to dead zones
in the Gulf of Mexico.
5.3 I can list the structural spheres designated by scientists and
explain why scientists categorize environmental systems in this
way.
5.4 I can define ecosystems and evaluate how living and
nonliving entities interact in ecosystem-level ecology.
5.5 I can explain the interrelationship of energy and matter in an
ecosystem.
5.6 I can explain how energy is converted to biomass through
primary and secondary productivity.
5.7 I can explain how nutrients influence productivity and given
an example of how nitrogen and phosphorus act as limiting
factors.
5.8 I can outline the fundamentals of landscape ecology, GIS, and
ecological modeling.
5.9 I can assess ecosystem services and how they benefit our
lives.
5.10 I can compare and contrast how water, carbon, phosphorus,
and nitrogen cycle through the environment.
5.11 I can explain how human impact is affecting biogeochemical
cycles.
5.12 I can calculate the amount of energy transferred between
trophic levels.
5.13 I can calculate net primary productivity.
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Unit Test Analysis
Chapter 8: Human Population
Target
8.1 I perceive the scope of human population growth.
8.2 I can assess divergent views on population growth.
8.3 I can explain and apply the fundamentals of demography.
8.4 I can show the relationship between an age structure
diagram and the social and economic patterns of a country.
8.5 I can outline and assess the concept of demographic
transition.
8.6 I can describe how wealth and poverty, the status of women,
family planning, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic affect population
growth.
8.7 I can link population goals to sustainable development goals.
8.8 I can evaluate how human population, affluence, and
technology affect the environment, using the IPAT model.
8.9 I can create and access age pyramids that show increasing,
decreasing and stable populations.
8.10 I can graphically and mathematically explain the
relationship between annual growth rate of a population and the
absolute size of a population.
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End of Unit Reflection
 Grade I thought I would earn on the Unit Test _____________
 Grade I actually earned on the Unit Test ________________
 Length of time I studied for the Unit Test _______________
 Was I absent at all during this unit? Did this impact my performance?
 Study methods I used to prepare for the Unit Test:
 What part of the test was hardest for you and why?
 What can you do to improve your performance on the next quiz or test? Be specific!