Week+18+January+5+-+9,+2015

=Ecology (Unit 8)=

What's Important?
//(19.5% of focus)//
 * Describe the levels of ecological organization (i.e. organisms, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere)
 * Describe characteristic biotic and abiotic components of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
 * Describe how energy flows through an ecosystem (e.g. food chains, food webs, energy pyramids)
 * Describe biotic interactions in an ecosystem (e.g. competition, predation, symbiosis)
 * Describe how matter recycles through an ecosystem (i.e. water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle, and nitrogen cycle)
 * Describe how ecosystems change in response to natural and human disturbances (e.g. climate change, introduction of nonnative species, pollution, fires)
 * Describe the effects of limiting factors on population dynamics and potential species extinction




 * Monday, January 5, 2015 **








 * Tuesday, January 6, 2015 **




 * Wednesday, January 7, 2015 **





[|Coral Ecosystem Video]
 * Thursday, January 8, 2015 **




 * Friday, January 5, 2015 **