Date: Tuesday, October 29
For this assessment, you should know the following information:
Vocabulary
- Species, population, community
- Symbiosis, commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, predator-prey, competition
- Consumers (primary and secondary), producers, decomposers
- Energy cycling (photosynthesis, food chains and food webs)
- Adaptations (behavioural and environmental)
- Environmental monitoring
- Human impacts on ecosystems
- Bioinvasion, invasive species, habituation
Concepts
- What is the difference between food chains and food webs?
- How does photosynthesis work? What is it's purpose? Why is it important?
- How do animals adapt to their environments?
- What are some examples of things that can be monitored in ecosystems? How would you monitor them? What kind of observations would you do?
Resources
Practice Tests
http://wps.pearsoned.ca/ca_school_ist7-8preview/99/25479/6522653.cw/content/index.html
http://www.edquest.ca/pdf/sf71utwkey.pdf