Ecology Targets
Biomes
1. I can list the 5 levels of organization of ecology.
2. I can explain what each of the five levels of organization are made of.
3. I can explain how biomes are different.
Ecosystem
4. I can explain why biodiversity leads to the stability of an ecosystem.
5. I can identify abiotic and biotic factors of an ecosystem.
6. I can compare how human activity affects the ecosystem vs. natural changes.
7. I can explain how climate changes can affect an ecosystem.
8. I can explain how introduction of nonnative species can affect an ecosystem.
9. I can explain how bacteria are important in the nitrogen cycle.
10. I can list how carbon enters and leaves the atmosphere.
11. I can explain ecological succession.
Communities
12. I can explain how changes in a habitat can affect the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
13. I can explain the difference between autotroph and heterotroph.
14. I can explain how producers and autotrophs are alike.
15. I can explain how consumers and heterotrophs are alike.
16. I can list the 4 types of consumers and list what they eat.
17. I can list the different types of decomposers and explain why they are important to
the stability of an ecosystem.
18. I can explain why producers are important to the stability of an ecosystem.
19. I can label the different levels of producers and consumers on a food web.
20. I can identify which trophic level an organism is in.
21. I can explain the 3 types of relationships between different species.
22. I can define biomass and explain a biomass pyramid.
23. I can explain the direction of energy flow in an energy pyramid.
24. I can explain what happens to the energy as you go up an energy pyramid.
Populations
25. I can explain how population size can affect an ecosystem.
26. I can explain what is happening to the population size by analyzing the graph.
27. I can explain how changes in a population size are affected by emigration and
immigration.
28. I can explain how competition and predation can affect the size of a population.
29. I can explain how the carrying capacity limits the size of a population.
30. I can explain what situations lead to exponential growth and what will cause it to
end.
Vocab
1. ecology
2. biodiversity
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biotic factors
abiotic factors
ecosystem
nonnative species
ecological succession
lichens
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niche
habitat
autotroph
heterotroph
producers
consumers
decomposers
trophic levels
mutualism
commensalism
parasitism
biomass
energy pyramid
biomass pyramid
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emigration
immigration
exponential growth
carrying capacity