This unit is mainly being used to review some information for the AIR testing. The joy of Ecology is that it is covered in almost every grade so students tend to know what is going on. The major goals from this unit are:
1. Identify levels of organizations in an ecosystem.
2. Identify biotic and abiotic factors.
3. Explain how energy flows through and ecosystem.
4. Identify characteristic of density dependent and density independent traits.
5. Construct and analyze food webs.
6. Predict what will happen if something changes in a food web.
7. Explain how human's impact the environment.
This unit will not be done in full due to a shortened window of time before midterms and Christmas break. We will hit the points needed for AIR testing and for future success in higher level Biology classes, but will leave some of the things out.