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Ecology

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Everywhere on the plant organisms interact with their environment.  Whether these interactions are with living or non-living components of an ecosystem they have implications for not only the individual but often all other living organisms around them.  This is the study of ecology: the interactions of organisms with their environment.  Not surprisingly this is a broad topic and this unit will introduce and examine many of the different aspects of ecology including communities, populations, classification, and the greenhouse effect.

Ecology Standards

Assignments:

  1. Ecology Notes
  2. Duckweed Population Growth Lab
  3. Energy Transfer Lab
  4. Carbon Cycle Animations
  5. Greenhouse Effect Lab
  6. Greenhouse Effect Lab Data Turn-In
  7. Greenhouse Effect Lab Data Summary
  8. Food Web Activity
  9. Building a Dichotomous Key Activity
  10. Zoo Field Trip
  11. Climate Change Data Analysis
  12. American Bison Population Growth Example

Shelby Unit Summary

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Resources

Lab Standards Explained
Ecology Quizlet Set


Communities & Ecosystems:
  • Crash Course Biology: Ecology
  • McGraw-Hill: Energy Flow Animation
  • Ted Talk: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World
  • Ted Talk: My Mushroom Burial Suit

Greenhouse Effect:
  • Carbon Cycle
  • Carbon Cycle Animation
  • Grenhouse Effect Animation
  • PhET: The Greenhouse Effect
  • The Precautionary Principal
  • Nature's Redrawing the Arctic Map: The new north
  • NASA's Arctic Sea Ice 101
  • NASA Climate Change Evidence Summary
  • The Guardian's Ultimate Climate Change FAQ
  • TED Talk: Rob Dunbar, The threat of ocean acidification
  • TED Talk: Lee Hotz, Inside an Antarctic time machine

Populations:
  • Ted Talk: Global Population Growth, Box by Box
  • Crash Course Guy: The Science of Overpopulation
  • Population Interactive Simulation
  • Population Changes Animation

Classification:
  • Dichotomous Key Example​





Chi-Squared Calculations:
  • Using Contingency Tables
  • Khan Academy: Contingency Table Chi-Squared Test
  • Chi-Squared Table​

Notes & Lectures:

4.1 - Species Communities & Ecosystems

4.2 - Energy Flow

4.3 - Carbon Cycle

4.4 - Climate Change

5.3 - Classification

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