Ecology Learning Targets(students will be able to)
1. Explain the nature of interactions between organisms in predator/prey relationships and different symbiotic relationships (ie: mutualism, commensalism, parasitism)
2. Identify and explain the limiting factors (biotic and abiotic) that may affect the carrying capacity of a population within an ecosystem.
3. Predict the impact (beneficial or harmful) a natural or human caused environmental event (eg: forest fire, flood, volcanic eruption avalanche, acid rain, global warming, pollution, deforestation, introduction of an exotic species) may have on the diversity of different species in an ecosystem.
4. Illustrate and describe the flow of energy within a food web.
5. Explain the importance of recycling within an ecosystem.
1. Explain the nature of interactions between organisms in predator/prey relationships and different symbiotic relationships (ie: mutualism, commensalism, parasitism)
2. Identify and explain the limiting factors (biotic and abiotic) that may affect the carrying capacity of a population within an ecosystem.
3. Predict the impact (beneficial or harmful) a natural or human caused environmental event (eg: forest fire, flood, volcanic eruption avalanche, acid rain, global warming, pollution, deforestation, introduction of an exotic species) may have on the diversity of different species in an ecosystem.
4. Illustrate and describe the flow of energy within a food web.
5. Explain the importance of recycling within an ecosystem.