Name ________________________________________ Class __________ Date _____________________

Ecology Unit Project

Directions: In your group, circle or highlight the habitat that corresponds with your letter.

Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F

Ocean Forest Desert Urban Community Rural Community Arctic (cold)
(city) (farms)

Directions: In groups of four, you are going to explore and apply your knowledge on ecology by doing a
project. This project will be dissected in the following five Parts:

Part I Abiotic and biotic factors

Part II Create a food web with 15 different organisms that represents an ecosystem in habitat
Part III Describe 5 different relationships that exist in that ecosystem
Part IV Evaluate a local practice or human impact that is affecting the ecosystem in a negative way
Part V Presentation on ways you can change or reduce the human impact on the ecosystem

Before you begin your project, select your group roles from the following list and write your name next to your
role.

Reseracher
Part I

Conservationalist
Final
Explorer
Part IV Project Part II
Part V

Environmentalist
Part III
 Part I- Researcher

Directions: You have learned about biotic and abiotic factors at the beginning of the unit. Describe each factor
in complete sentences then use the following table as a template to list abiotic and abiotic factors of your
selected habitat.

Biotic Factors are___________________________________________________________________________

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Abiotic Factors are_________________________________________________________________________

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Name of Ecosystem __________________________________________

Biotic Factors Abiotic Factors

 Part II- Explorer

Directions: From your chosen habitat, select 15 organisms and construct a food web diagram that illustrates
how the organism interact with each other.

Examples of a food web (be creative)

 Part III- Environmentalist

Directions: Select5 different relationships that exist within that ecosystem and write at least one page describing
each relationship. You can use the following template as a guide (if you want to use another template it must be
approved by the teacher)

The five different relationships that exist within the _______________ ecosystem. They are as follows

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The first relationship ________________________________________________________________________

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The Second relationship ______________________________________________________________________

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The third relationship ________________________________________________________________________

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The forth relationship ________________________________________________________________________

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The fifth relationship ________________________________________________________________________

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 Part IV- Conservationist

Directions: Evaluate a local practice or human impact that is affecting the ecosystem in a negative way and
write at a one page explanation describing the human impact.

Humans have impacted the world in several ways. Humans have impacted our ecosystem __________________

by _______________________________________________________________________________________

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 Part V- Final Presentation

Directions: Choose one of the following categories of presentation and create a presentation on ways you can
change or reduce the human impact on the ecosystem.

Service Technology Audio Visual

Letter to local PowerPoint Diorama
representative Commerical Painting
Mini lesson on
awareness Documentary Collage
Musical/song

All projects will be graded on the basic following criteria:

1. provide all required elements

2. project represents quality work
3. project is neat and organized
4. project is easy to understand
5. project is the students own work
6. information is correct

All research must be done by creditable sources* (if you have any questions pertaining to the credibility of
sources, please see the teacher or refer back your notes).