Review
Sheet For Ecology Unit
Standards
For the Unit
S7L4
Students will examine the dependence
of organisms on one another and their environments.
a. Demonstrate
in a food web that matter is transferred
from one organism to another and can
recycle between organisms and
their environments.
b. Explain
in a food web that sunlight is the source of energy and that this energy moves from
organism to organism.
c. Recognize
that changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of both
individuals
and entire
species.
d. Categorize
relationships between organisms that are competitive or mutually beneficial.
e. Describe
the characteristics of Earth’s major terrestrial biomes (i.e. tropical rain
forest,
savannah, temperate, desert, taiga, tundra, and
mountain) and aquatic communities (i.e.
freshwater, estuaries, and marine).
Vocabulary
Ch.
3
Ecology,
, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore,
food chain, food web, energy pyramid, biomass
pyramid, pyramid of numbers
Ch.
4
evaporation,
condensation, precipitation, decomposition, combustion, succession, pioneer
species,
biome,
savanna, desert, tundra, plankton, estuary, littoral zone, open-water zone,
deep-water zone, wetland, marsh, biotic, Abiotic limiting nutrient
Ch.
5
Population,
carrying capacity, demography, logistic curve, exponential curve, prey,
predator, symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, density dependent limiting factors, density
independent limiting factors. carrying capacity
Ch. 6
pollution,
renewable resource, nonrenewable resource, overpopulation, biodiversity,
conservation, recycling, CFC, ozone layer, climate change, DDT and pesticides
1.
Distinguish between the biotic and abiotic parts of the environment.
2.
Explain how populations and communities are related.
3.
Describe how the abiotic parts of the environment affect ecosystems.
4.
Describe the functions of producers, consumers, and decomposers in an
ecosystem.
5.
Distinguish between a food chain and a food web.
6.
Explain how energy flows through a food web.
7.
Describe how the removal of one species affects the entire food web.
8.
Explain the relationship between carrying capacity and limiting factors.
9.
Describe the two types of competition.
10.
Distinguish between mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. Give an example of
coevolution.
11.
Diagram the water cycle, and explain its importance to living things.
12.
Diagram the carbon cycle, and explain its importance to living things.
13.
Diagram the nitrogen cycle, and explain its importance to living things.
14.
Describe the process of succession.
16.
Contrast primary and secondary succession.
17.
Explain how climax communities develop.
18.
Distinguish between density limiting factors and density independent factors
19.
Identify seven land biomes on Earth.
20.
List three abiotic factors that shape marine ecosystems.
21.
Describe four major ocean zones.
22.
Describe five marine ecosystems.
23.
Describe one abiotic factor that affects freshwater ecosystems.
24.
Describe the three zones of a lake.
25.
Describe two wetland ecosystems.
26.
Explain how a lake becomes a forest.
27.
List five kinds of pollutants.
28.
Distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
29.
Describe the impact of exotic species.
30.
Explain why human population growth has increased.
31.
Describe how habitat destruction affects biodiversity.
32.
Give two examples of how pollution affects humans.
33.
Explain the importance of conservation.
34.
Describe the three R’s as it relates to Earth’s resources.
35.
Explain how biodiversity can be maintained.
36.
List five environmental strategies.
37.
Explain the cause and effects of ozone depletion
38.
Explain how climate change and the greenhouse
effect are similar and how they are different