How are the adaptations and habitats of species related?
What causes the similarities between ecosystems within a terrestrial biome?
What are the properties of the components of biological systems?
Is light essential for life?
B4.1.1 Habitat as the place in which a community, species, population or organism lives
B4.1.2 Adaptations of organisms to the abiotic environment of their habitat
B4.1.3 Abiotic variables affecting species distribution
B4.1.4 Range of tolerance of a limiting factor
B4.1.5 Conditions required for coral reef formation
B4.1.6 Abiotic factors as the determinants of terrestrial biome distribution
B4.1.7 Biomes as groups of ecosystems with similar communities due to similar abiotic conditions and convergent evolution
B4.1.8 Adaptations to life in hot deserts and tropical rainforest
The power point presentation and the accompanying student notes are used as resources in class - together with activites, discussion, simulations and experiments.