Chapter 4 The Organization of Life
4.1: Ecosystems: Everything is Connected
1. I can explain the components of an ecosystem. TTK: ecosystem, biotic factors, abiotic factors,
organism, species, population, community, and habitat
Chapter 4.2 Evolution
2. I can explain the process of evolution by natural selection. TTK: natural selection, evolution, and
adaptation
Unit 2
3. I can explain which beak is the most successful from the Battle of the Beaks.
Ecology
4. I can explain artificial selection. TTK: artificial selection, and resistance
Chapter 4.3 Diversity of Living Things
5. I can describe the 3 domains and 4 kingdoms used in classification. TTK: archaea, bacteria,
fungus, and protist
6. I can explain how organisms interact and depend on each other for survival. TTK: gymnosperm,
angiosperm, invertebrate, and invertebrate.
Chapter 5 How Ecosystems Work
5.1 Energy Flow in Ecosystems
7. I can explain the energy transfer from producers to consumers. TTK: photosynthesis, consumers,
producers, and decomposers.
8. I can explain cellular respiration. TTK: cellular respiration
9. I can create a food web that models the energy transfer between organisms. TTK: food chain,
food web, and trophic level
Chapter 5.2 The Cycling of Matter
10. I can explain the carbon cycle. TTK: carbon cycle
11. I can explain the nitrogen and phosphate cycles. TTK: nitrogen fixing-bacteria, nitrogen cycle,
and phosphate cycle
Chapter 5.3 How Ecosystems Change
12. I can explain how a pioneer species contributes to ecological succession. TTK: ecological
succession, primary succession, secondary succession, and pioneer species
13. I can explain how fires can be beneficial to a forest community. TTK: climax community
Chapter 6 Biomes
14. I can explain all aspects that make up a biome. TTK: biome, climate, latitude, altitude, emergent
layer, canopy, epiphyte, understory, tropical rain forest, temperate rain forest, temperate
deciduous rain forest, taiga, savanna, temperate grassland, chaparral, desert, tundra, and
permafrost
Chapter 7 Aquatic Ecosystem
7.1 Freshwater Ecosystems
15. I can explain the 3 groups of organisms that make up aquatic ecosystems. TTK: wetland,
plankton, nekton, benthos, littoral zone, benthic zone, and eutrophication
16. I can describe the environmental functions of wetlands.
17. I can describe one threat against river ecosystems.
Chapter 7.2 Marine Ecosystems
18. I can explain why an estuary is a productive ecosystem. TTK: estuary
19. I can compare a salt marsh and a mangrove marsh. TTK: salt marsh and mangrove swamp
20. I can describe the threats to coral reefs and ocean animals. TTK: coral reef and barrier island
Learning Target Explanation
1.
Tasks to be graded
in notebook
___Questions 2 and
3 page
2.
___Question 1 and
2 page 101
3.
___Data table from
Battle of the Beaks
4.
___Question 3 page
101
5.
___Question 3 page
107
___Table on page
102
___Question 5 page
107
__Table for
gymnosperms and
angiosperms
___Question 1 page
123
___ Table on page
119
___Observations
from Demo
6.
7.
8.
9.
___Food Web
10.
___Question 1 page
128
11.
___Question 3 page
133
12.
___Question 2 page
133
13.
___Question 3 page
133
14.
___Biome Project
15.
___Questions 1 and
2 page 178
16.
___Question 3 page
178
17.
___Question 6 page
178
18.
___Questions 1 and
6 page 185
19.
___ Question 2 page
185
20.
___Questions 3 and
4 page 185