Unit 2: The Living World - Biodiversity

Learning Objectives

ERT-2.A Explain levels of biodiversity and their importance to ecosystems.

ERT-2.B Describe ecosystem services.

ERT-2.C Describe the results of human disruptions to ecosystem services

ERT-2.D Describe island biogeography.

ERT-2.E Describe the role of island biogeography in evolution.

ERT-2.F Describe ecological tolerance.

ERT-2.G Explain how natural disruptions, both short and long-term, impact an ecosystem.

ERT-2.H Describe how organisms adapt to their environment.

ERT-2.I Describe ecological succession.

ERT-2.J Describe the effect of ecological succession on ecosystems.