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Vocabulary:

ecology
biosphere
biome
ecosystem
community
population
organism
habitat
biotic
abiotic
niche
generalist
specialist
producers
consumers
decomposers
herbivore
carnivore
omnivore
detritivore
biomass
trophic levels
food chain
food web
water cycle
carbon cycle
nitrogen cycle

populations:
  dispersion
  birth rate
  death rate
  life expectancy
  exponential
    model
  logistic model
  carrying  
    capacity
  limiting factors
  density-
     independent
     factors
  density
    dependent
    factors
  demographics

predation
competition

symbiosis:
  mutualism
  commensalism
  parasitism

succession:
  primary
  secondary
  climax
    community
  pioneer species

 

The Ecology test (Wednesday, Sept 14th) will cover the following topics:
 
Biotic/abiotic factors
Trophic Levels
Food chains/webs
Water/Carbon/Nitrogen cycles
Interrelationships among organisms:
  Competition
  Predation
  Symbiosis (mutualism, commensalism, parasitism)
Humans' influence on cycles
Succession
Carrying capacity
Density Dependent Factors
Density Independent Factors
Climate change/Global warming

Download Field Study Form for succession plot...

Honors Chapter reading for this unit:

 Levels of organization (361)
  Ecosystems (362)
  Biotic/Abiotic (363)
  Niche (365)
  Energy Transfer-Producers/Consumers (366-367)
  Food chains/webs, trophic levels (368-369)
  Water/Carbon/Nitrogen cycles (371-374)
  Population dynamics (381-389)
  Predation (399)
  Competition (401)
  Symbiosis (403)
  Succession (408)

 

   

  Ecocolumn Project (see below)

 

     "Tragedy of the Commons,"
   Garrett Hardin, Science, 162(1968):1243-1248.
   
  
 

  Find out what your Ecological Footprint is...


  The Virtual Museum of Ecology

 

Everything you need to know for your high school biology unit on Ecology, made into a fun tour of rooms and hallways.

Easy on the note taking:  most of it is here.
 


Power points used in class:
    
1. Populations and Limiting Factors
 

2. Interrelationships Among Organisms

3. Succession, Trophic Levels, Food Webs, Biomes

4. Cycles

Cycles


Try the Carbon Cycle Game

 


Recycling:  Paper/bottle recycling, composting, reforestation

Check out our recycling page  
 


Global Warming
Treasure Hunt

A web based project
 


Human parasites doc.

http://www.parasitesinhumans.org/
 

 

  The Great Global Warming Swindle

  This documentary will be viewed partly in class.  Please take the time to finish it.  The last two (parts 7 & 8) introduce the Global Warming agenda as it affects the development of third world countries...

  Part 1
 
Part 2
 
Part 3
 
Part 4
 
Part 5
 
Part 6
 
Part 7
 
Part 8
 

   
 

“[Another] reason environmental extremism emerged was because world communism failed, the wall came down, and a lot of peaceniks and political activists moved into the environmental movement, bringing their neo-Marxism with them and learned to use “green” language in a very clever way to cloak agendas that actually have more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than they do …with ecology or science.”

Patrick Moore
Co-founder, Greenpeace

 



ECOCOLUMN PROJECT
 
Assembly day is Tuesday, January 31

    Project Construction
 Here you will see what we are doing, and how it's constructed

 Initial Project Data
 You must record how you first construct it; what's in it on day one.

 Suggested Plants/Animals
 Or maybe you have other things you'd like to use.

 Suggested links to other information/images:
   Keeping Finnigan Alive

  Atlas Brown project


 What Mr. Blankenship will provide on Tuesday:

 > Cotton balls
 > Sand
 > Potting soil
 > Tool for making holes
 > Some seed (if you want it)
 > Tape
 > Aged tap water
 > Elodea (a water plant...if you want it)