Ecology 6. Stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing effects.

As a basis for understanding this concept:

Objective
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Distinguish between the biotic and abiotic factors in the environment. Compare the different levels of biological organization and living relationships important in ecology. Explain the difference between a niche and a habitat. Compare how organisms satisfy their nutritional needs. Trace the path of energy and matter in an ecosystem. Analyze how nutrients are cycled in the abiotic and biotic parts of the biosphere Explain how limiting factors and ranges of tolerance affect distribution of organisms. Sequence the stages of ecological succession Compare and contract photic and aphotic zones of marine biomes Identify the major limiting factors affecting distribution of terrestrial biomes distinguish among biomes

a. b. c. d. e. f.

Students know biodiversity is the sum total of different kinds of organisms and is affected by alterations of habitats. Students know how to analyze changes in an ecosystem resulting from changes in climate, human activity, introduction of nonnative species, or changes in population size. Students know how fluctuations in population size in an ecosystem are determined by the relative rates of birth, immigration, emigration, and death. Students know how water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle between abiotic resources and organic matter in the ecosystem and how oxygen cycles through photosynthesis and respiration. Students know a vital part of an ecosystem is the stability of its producers and decomposers. Students know at each link in a food web some energy is stored in newly made structures but much energy is dissipated into the environment as heat. This dissipation may be represented in an energy pyramid.

* Students know how to distinguish between the accommodation of an individual organism to its environment and the gradual adaptation of a lineage of organisms through genetic change.

Monday 10/10 POD: Is fungus a producer or a consumer? Explain. Correct HWMK Chapter 2 exam .

Tuesday 10/11 POD: What is a food Web? Correct HMWK Outline 3-1 Quiz 3-1 tomorrow

Wednesday 10/12 POD: What are the two main forms of energy that power living systems? Correct HMWK Finish outline 3-1 Quiz 3-1 Start 3-2 energy flow

Thursday 10/13 POD: Briefly describe the flow of energy among organisms in an ecosystem. Correct HMWK Continue outline 3-2 food chains and webs Wksht what eats what HMWK: Wksht 3-2 (3 pgs) Print Wksht energy flow in ecosystems

Friday 10/14 POD: What proportion of energy is transferred from one tropic level to the next in an ecosystem? Correct HMWK Finish 3-2 energy loss and pyrimids Wksht energy flow in ecosystems HMWK: SAQs 3-2 pg 73 15 Print vital commodity lab

HMWK Read 3-1 vocab w/ pic 3-1

HMWKSAQs 3-1 pg 65 1-5 wksht 3-1

HMWK Read 3-2 Vocab w/ pic 3-2. Print Wksht what eats what