Ecology Study Resources
Unit Outcomes
- Describe the levels of ecological organization (organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere)
- Describe the characteristic biotic and abiotic components of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
- Describe how energy flows through an ecosystem (food chains, food webs, energy pyramids)
- Describe biotic interaction in an ecosystem (competition, predation, symbiosis)
- Describe how matter recycles through an ecosystem (water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle, and nitrogen cycle)
- Describe how ecosystems change in response to natural and human disturbances (climate changes, introduction of nonnative species, pollution, fires)
- Describe the effects of limiting factors on population dynamics and potential species extinction.
Vocabulary
1. limiting factor
2. extinction 3. agriculture 4. nonnative species 5. succession 6. biogeochemical cycles 7. consumer (ecological) 8. decomposer 9. food chain 10. producer (ecological) 11. species 12. population dynamics 13. competition 14. endemic species 15. symbiotic relationship 16. predation 17. parasitism 18. mutualism 19. commensalism 20. predator 21. niche |
22. prey
23. energy pyramid 24. food web 25. trophic level 26. biomass 27. herbivore 28. carnivore 29. omnivore 30. abiotic 31. aquatic 32. biome 33. biotic 34. habitat 35. terrestrial 36. system 37. biosphere 38. community (ecological) 39. ecology 40. ecosystem 41. environment 42. population |
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