Ecology Unit Notes are found in sets 1 - 4. Students will access notes and hand in completed note interaction assignments. All other assignments are found in the attachments section.
Ecology Big Ideas:
- Comparing land environments activity
Useful Web Sites : http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/weeds/
- Dynamics of Ecosystems listening assignment "The World Without Us!"
- Using a microscope activity
2. Flow of energy from non-living to living environments.
- Food Web Interactions
- Getting to the Top
- Matching Feeder Terms
- Sunny Meadows Interactive on-line activity. http://puzzling.caret.cam.ac.uk/pregame.php?game=6
3. Organization of the living environment and energy flow.
- Going with the Flow
- Interaction Pyramids
4. Human interactions with the energy flow.
- Biomagnification
- Borneo 1950
5. Community interactions and energy flow.
- Competition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
- Deer and Wolf Interactions
- Hare and Lynx
- Predator - Prey Pond Organism Lab
6. Populations and energy flow.
- Carrying Capacity
- Environmental Factors and Population Size
- The Lesson of the Kaibab
7. Biogeochemical Cycles
- Water Cycle
- Nitrogen Cycle
- Human Impacts on the Nitrogen Cycle
- Breathing New Life into Water
- Carbon Cycle
- Phosphorus Cycle
- Pond Water Quality Testing Lab
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