Unit 11: Ecology
Standards:
BIO 2.1.1 Analyze the flow of energy and cycling of matter (water, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen) through ecosystems relating the significance of each to maintaining the health and sustainability of an ecosystem.
BIO 2.1.2 Analyze the survival and reproductive success of organisms in terms of behavioral, structural, and reproductive adaptations.
BIO 2.1.3 Explain various ways organisms interact with each other (including predation, competition, parasitism, mutualism) and with their environments resulting in stability within ecosystems.
BIO 2.1.4 Explain why ecosystems can be relatively stable over hundreds or thousands of years, even though populations may fluctuate (emphasizing availability of food, availability of shelter, number of predators, and disease).
BIO 2.2.1 Infer how human activities (including population growth, pollution, global warming, burning of fossil fuels, habitat destruction, and introduction of nonnative species) may impact the environment.
BIO 2.2.2 Explain how the use, protection, and conservation of natural resources by humans impact the environment from one generation to the next.
Essential Questions:
- Describe how water, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen cycle through the environment.
- How do humans impact the four major nutrient cycles?
- How do behavioral, structural, and reproductive adaptations increase an organism's chance of survival?
- What stimuli prompt a response in organisms?
- Are some responses learned or are they primarily instinctual?
- What controls the number of individuals in a population?
- How do communities interact? (Density-Dependent vs Density-Independent Interactions)
- Can we map ecosystems across the globe?
- How do human activities impact these ecosystems?
- Why is the conservation of biodiversity and natural resources important?
BIO 2.1.1 Analyze the flow of energy and cycling of matter (water, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen) through ecosystems relating the significance of each to maintaining the health and sustainability of an ecosystem.
BIO 2.1.2 Analyze the survival and reproductive success of organisms in terms of behavioral, structural, and reproductive adaptations.
BIO 2.1.3 Explain various ways organisms interact with each other (including predation, competition, parasitism, mutualism) and with their environments resulting in stability within ecosystems.
BIO 2.1.4 Explain why ecosystems can be relatively stable over hundreds or thousands of years, even though populations may fluctuate (emphasizing availability of food, availability of shelter, number of predators, and disease).
BIO 2.2.1 Infer how human activities (including population growth, pollution, global warming, burning of fossil fuels, habitat destruction, and introduction of nonnative species) may impact the environment.
BIO 2.2.2 Explain how the use, protection, and conservation of natural resources by humans impact the environment from one generation to the next.
Essential Questions:
- Describe how water, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen cycle through the environment.
- How do humans impact the four major nutrient cycles?
- How do behavioral, structural, and reproductive adaptations increase an organism's chance of survival?
- What stimuli prompt a response in organisms?
- Are some responses learned or are they primarily instinctual?
- What controls the number of individuals in a population?
- How do communities interact? (Density-Dependent vs Density-Independent Interactions)
- Can we map ecosystems across the globe?
- How do human activities impact these ecosystems?
- Why is the conservation of biodiversity and natural resources important?
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