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2024/2025 AP BIOLOGY
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  • Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
  • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
  • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
  • Unit 5: Heredity
  • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
  • Unit 7: Natural Selection
  • Unit 8: Ecology
  • AP Exam Prep
  • After AP Exam
  • Emergency Sub Plans
2024/2025 AP BIOLOGY
  • Home
  • Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
  • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
  • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
  • Unit 5: Heredity
  • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
  • Unit 7: Natural Selection
  • Unit 8: Ecology
  • AP Exam Prep
  • After AP Exam
  • Emergency Sub Plans
  • More
    • Home
    • Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
    • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
    • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
    • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
    • Unit 5: Heredity
    • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
    • Unit 7: Natural Selection
    • Unit 8: Ecology
    • AP Exam Prep
    • After AP Exam
    • Emergency Sub Plans

Unit 8: Ecology

Tuesday 3/25

UNIT 7 TEST- Essays

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Wednesday 3/26

UNIT 7 TEST- Multiple Choice section

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Thursday 3/27

Essential Understanding- 8.1 Responses to the Environment -Section Questions

  1. WATCH : Physiology of Circulatory System (worksheet) 5 min print

  • Check out this old AP Lab: AP Physiology and Circulatory System

  1. WATCH: Response to External Environments (concept map/ppt) 7 min print

4) WATCH: Cooperative Interactions (worksheet) 10 min print

5) WATCH: Behavior and Natural Selection (worksheet) 9 min print

6) Skim over 8.1 Examples Partner work and then watch Watch Section 8.1 Daily Video. Once the video is over, write down examples for the bulleted items on the printout. Anything you do not have an example of, look up

7) Read next class's Lab Pillbug- Behavior LAB

HWK: Complete 8.1 Examples Partner work and read first page (and do prelab questions 1-6) 

also- Start Chapter 51 Book Work  (due 4/1)

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Friday 3/28

Behavioral Mechanism

1) Pillbug- Behavior LAB 

2) Take 8.1 Progress Check

3) If there is time remaining you can work on Chapter 51 Book Work 

Homework: Work on Chapter 51 Book Work (due 4/1)

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Monday 3/31

1) Collect Pillbug Lab 

2.  Section 8.1 Quiz

Physiological Mechanism

2) Bozeman Transpiration Lab Walk Through (Lab 9) 5 min (worksheet)

3) Transpiration Lab (Teacher Data Key) (another set of sample data) 

  • Transpiration Potometer Setup Explained

  • Transpiration Simulation Lab Website 

HMK: Work on Chapter 51 Book Work (due tomorrow) 

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Tuesday 4/1

Turn in Chapter 51 Book Work 

1) Time to share out plant adaptations and finish Transpiration Lab

Essential Understanding- 8.2 Energy Flow Through Environment-Section Questions

2) Use of Energy Strategies worksheet

3) POGIL: Energy Transfer in Organisms (scroll and discuss with table mate; not printing) **

4) Complete Energy Flow in an Ecosystem Worksheet (key)

5) Complete Ecological Pyramids Worksheet (key)

6) Watch Section 8.2 Daily Video(s) and Take the Progress Check


SKIP: Food Chains and Energy in Ecosystems Activity
Skip: AP Dissolved Oxygen and Primary Productivity LAB Bozeman: AP Biology Lab 12 (6 min) 

HMK: 8.2 Progress Check and Start Chapter 53- Population Ecology

Chapter 53 Book Work (due 4/4)

Powerpoint: Chapter 53

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Wednesday 4/2

  1. Section 8.2 Quiz 

Essential Understanding- 8.3 Populations Ecology-Section Questions

  1. WATCH BOZEMAN: Populations (video worksheet) (12 min) print

  2.  Mark-Recapture Activity print

  • What are some other ways scientists;/ count/estimate populations

    • Watch: Counting Wild Animals (3.5 min) 

Essential Understanding- 8.4 Effect of Density of Populations-Section Questions

  1. Create a Organizer to explain the difference between the different growths covered in the  next 3 videos

  • Bozeman: Exponential Growth (worksheet) 10 min print

  • Bozeman: Logistic Growth (worksheet) 11 min print

  • SKIPPED: WATCH: Bozeman: r and K Selected Species (worksheet) 7 min 

HOMEWORK: Complete up to and included question #16 on POGIL: Population Growth print

also- Take 8.3 and 8.4 Progress check and Work on Chapter 53 Book Work (due 4/4)

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Thursday 4/3

  1. Cicadas Side Research

  •  2025 Brood

  1. Complete: Graphing Population Growth and Carrying Capacity (teacher key) print

Essential Understanding- 8.5 Community Ecology- Section Questions

  1. Quick Group Review (complete digitally) 

  2. Definitions for 3 terms: Abundance, Richness and Diversity (only watch first 30 seconds)- take notes!

  3. Watch: Simpson's Diversity Index Explanation (6 min) - TAKE NOTES!

  4.  Biodiversity Activity - Project to Board and Complete as class 

  • Teacher Key: Google Sheets- Simpson's index Calculations 

  1. SKIPPING: Bead Lab 

  • Google Sheet 

HMK:  Watch Section 8.5 Daily Video and Take the Progress Check

Finish Chapter 53 Book Work  (due tomorrow) 

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Friday 4/4

Turn in Chapter 53 Book Work 

  1. Section 8.3 and 8.4 Quiz

  2. Complete more of the Biodiversity Activity - Project to Board and Complete as class 

  • Teacher Key: Google Sheets- Simpson's index Calculations 

  1. WATCH: Communities (video worksheet) 14 min print

Essential Understanding- 8.6 Biodiversity-Section Questions

  1. WATCH BOZEMAN: Biodiversity (video worksheet) 8 min print

  2. COMPLETE: Biodiversity Worksheet (key) print

  3. WATCH Biotic and Abiotic Factors (concept map) 10 min

HWK: Start Chapter 54 Book Work (due 4/9) and Watch Section 8.6 Daily Video and Take the Progress 

PowerPoint: Chapter 54

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Monday 4/7

Section 8.5 and 8.6 Quiz 

Essential Understanding- 8.7  Disruptions to Ecosystems -Section Questions

  1. WATCH Ecosystem Changes (worksheet) 12 min print

Check out this website. Find a topic, different from your neighbor to explore 

  1. Invasive Species 

  • Quick Invasive Species Assignment

    • Invasive Species Cat's in Boreno (3 min) 

    • Skim this article about GMO Mosquitoes in FL and the update make connection between this article and invasive species 

3. Skim- Global Climate Change POGIL -not printing

HMK: Watch Section 8.7 Daily Video and Take the Progress Check

Chapter 54 Book Work  (due 4/9)

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Tuesday 4/8

1) Section 8.7 Quiz

2) We did not do Chapter 52 or 55. Both are related to this content. Skim through those chapters

  • Chapter 52- An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere 

Chapter 52- Book Work 
  • Chapter 55- Ecosystems and Restoration Ecology

Chapter 55 Book Work 

3) Unit 8 Progress Check 

4) Zero Out Practice Essays

5) Grade Practice AP Exam Essays

HMK: Chapter 54 Book Work  (due tomorrow) 

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Wednesday 4/9

Turn in Chapter 54 Book Work 

1) Bear Game

  • Bear Game Instructions

  • Individual Spreadsheet

  • Class Data Round 1

  • Class Data Round 2

  • Analysis Questions (complete digitally on Schoology) 

2) Look at Unit 8 Practice Essays

3) Unit 8: Review Material


SKIPPING:  Invertebrate Biodiversity (Soil Bug Population Lab)
  • Google Sheet
Old Density and Biodiversity Activity  -Google Sheet 

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Thursday 4/10

Unit 8 TEST - Essays  

  • 1A Printout

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Friday 4/11

Unit 8 TEST - Multiple Choice

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SPRING BREAK!

Over Break Check this out:

AP Biology cram notes (55 pages) 

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