Biology Unit 8 - Ecology

Unit 8 – Ecology

Ecology

 

Describe ecological levels of organization in the biosphere.

 

  • Describe the levels of ecological organization (i.e., organism, population, community,ecosystem, biome, and biosphere)

 

  • Describe characteristic biotic and abiotic components of aquatic and terrestrialecosystems.

 

Describe interactions and relationships in an ecosystem.

 

  • Describe how energy flows through an ecosystem (e.g., food chains, food webs, energypyramids).

 

  • Describe biotic interactions in an ecosystem (e.g., competition, predation, symbiosis).

 

  • Describe how matter recycles through an ecosystem (i.e., water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygencycle, and nitrogen cycle).

 

  • Describe how ecosystems change in response to natural and human disturbances (e.g., climatechange, introduction of nonnative species, pollution, fires).

 

  • Describe the effects of limiting factors on population dynamics and potential speciesextinction.

 

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