Unit 3: Populations
Chapter 8 Understanding Populations
8.1: How Populations Change in Size pages 197-202
Vocabulary: population, density, dispersion, growth rate, reproductive potential,
exponential growth, and carrying capacity
1.
2.
I can explain growth rate. (pages 197-199)
I can explain what limits population growth. pages 200-202
8.2: How Species Interact with Each Other pages 203-209
Vocabulary: niche, competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism,
and symbiosis
3.
I can describe the five major types of interactions between species. pages 203-209
Chapter 9: The Human Population
9.1 Studying Human Populations pages 219-224
Vocabulary: demography, age structure, survivorship, fertility rate, migration, life
expectancy, and demographic transition
4.
5.
I can explain how the size and growth rate of the human population has changed in
the last 200 years. pages 219-222
I can explain why different countries may be at different stages of the demographic
transition. pages 223-224
9.2 Changing Population Trends pages 225-231
Vocabulary: infrastructure, arable land, urbanization, least developed countries
6.
I can explain the impacts of rapid population growth.
Chapter 10 Biodiversity
10.1 What is Biodiversity? pages 241-244
7.
I can explain four ways in which biodiversity is important to ecosystems and
humans.
10.2 Biodiversity at Risk pages 245-251
Vocabulary: biodiversity, gene, keystone species, ecotourism
Vocabulary: endangered species, threatened species, exotic species, poaching, and
endemic species
8.
I can describe the threats that are having the largest impact on biodiversity.
10.3 The Future of Biodiversity pages 252-257
Vocabulary: germ plasm, Endangered Species Act, habitat conservation plan, and
Biodiversity Treaty
9.
I can explain how worldwide efforts are being implemented to prevent extinction of
organisms.
10. I can determine possible effects of oil spills on shoreline organism.
Unit 3
Populations
Learning Target Explanation
Tasks to be graded in
notebook
1
___Quick lab data from page 198
2.
___Question 4 page 202
3.
___Question 3 page 209
4.
___Question 1 page 224
5.
___Question 4 page 224
6.
___Question 2 page 231
7.
___Question 3 page 244
8.
___Questions 1 and 6 page 251
9.
___Question 5 page 257
10.
___Data and questions from quick
lab page 254