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.
Vocab
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