ecology goals

A Goals

EC1. I can describe the main characteristics of living things.

         They can reproduce

EC2. I can describe the levels of organization in an ecosystem
        If the population reaches its carring capacity it is the maximum number of living thing that an ecosystem can support ( growth, stability and then the decline )

EC3. I can explain the roles of autotrophs (producers) and heterotrophs (consumers) in ecosystems.
         Autotrophs (eats) needs water and sun light so tehy can live and grow. Heterotrophs eats plants (or, and) other kind of animals but they depend on somebody to survive

EC4. I can distinguish between producers, consumers and decomposers.
         Producers make thier own food, consumers depends in other animals or plants so they can survive, and the decomposers break down the dead plants and animals around them so it can be absorbed, they help the grass grow stronger.

EC5. I can distinguish between herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.
         Herbivores only eats natural things like plants vegetables and fruits, the carnivors only eats meat, and the omnivores eats both.

EC6. I can distinguish and give examples of abiotic and biotic factors in an environment.
         Abiotic are dead things and biotic are living things.

EC7. I can compare and contrast different interactions between populations, such as competition, predation, mutualism and parasitism.

          The Parasitosm harms one of the spicies and the other one has benefits. The Mutualism both species are benefited, and the Commenasalism one specie has benefits while the other wdon`t has any harm or benefit. ( two types of species living together)

EC8. I can draw the carbon and water cycle and label its parts and processes.

EC9. I can explain how the following words are connected: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

        it the treeof life, how it divides organisms

EC10. I can outline the binomial system of nomenclature.

          The binomial system of nomenclature is the scientific name

B Goals

EC11. I can construct a food web containing at least 10 organisms and label the trophic level of each organism, as well as their roles in the web.

          Producer : plants
          Primary Consumers: Rabbit, Squirrels, mice, grasshpers, seed eating bird, zebra
          Secondary Consumers: Foxes, Owls, Snakes, Spiders,  lions
          Tertiary Consumers: Owls, Snakes,

EC12. I can analyze the importance of decomposers for the environment.
          Decomposers are very important to the enviromnt because they are the begging and the end of the cycle, they are the ones to help the grass grow stronger and they are also the ones who helps the meats and leaves decompse faster.

EC13. I can explain the importance of photosynthesis to a food chain.
           Photosynthesis is very important to the food chain because it what helps plants turn the carbn dioxide into oxygen and with out it almost no one can survive

EC14. I can analyze the energy flow in a food chain

          From one million J the producers gets 10thousadnds j out of it, the primery consumers gets 1,000j of the energy, the secondary consumers gets 100 j and the tertiary consumers gets only 10 J

EC15. I can compare/contrast the energy and matter flow in a food chain.

         

EC16. I can evaluate the impacts of adding/removing populations to/of a food web

          

EC17. I can predict the effect of different factors on population size.

           If just one specie extinct it can effect the whole food chain because if a SEcondary consumer gets extict the primary consumers will get over populated which will reduce the amount of producers.  It will also effect the tetriay will reduce because thier will have less food to them.

EC18. I can explain the importance of variation within a population.

          

EC19. I can explain the importance of adaptations in the natural selection process.

        

EC20. I can explain why fossils, vestigial and DNA can be used as evidence of evolution.

          

EC21. I can predict how climate change can threaten biodiversity