May 1-5

Ecology Unit Study Guide: End-of-Unit Review 🌎📝

📅 Completed: May 1

To wrap up our Ecology Unit, students worked through a detailed study guide that reviewed all the major concepts we’ve covered. This guide served as a scavenger hunt, helping students use their notes to answer key questions about ecosystems, food webs, biomes, and ecological relationships .

🧠 Key Topics Reviewed:

• Types of Consumers: Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, scavengers, decomposers

• Producers vs. Consumers

• Symbiotic Relationships: Mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, predation

• Ecosystem Structure: Populations, communities, ecosystems, and the biosphere

• Energy Flow: Food chains, food webs, energy pyramids, and trophic levels

• Biomes: Characteristics and examples of biomes like tundras, deserts, grasslands, rainforests, aquatic ecosystems, and more

• Biotic & Abiotic Factors: Identifying living and nonliving parts of ecosystems

• Ecological Terms: Limiting factors, biodiversity, competition, and adaptations
  
  

✏️ How Students Completed the Guide:

Students searched their notebooks and notes to answer 50 questions, reinforcing their understanding of:

• The structure of energy pyramids and how energy decreases as it moves up

• Important biome characteristics and example species

• Relationships between organisms and the balance of ecosystems
  
  

🌿 Why This Matters:

This study guide helped students review and connect all the main ideas from the Ecology Unit in preparation for their upcoming End-of-Unit Test. It also reinforced how organisms interact with each other and their environment, a foundational concept in life science.

✅ Awesome work reviewing and organizing your ecology knowledge! Keep those notes handy for test day. 🌱🌎📚