Topic+Four+review


Food Web and Chain (trophic levels..etc) 1207463895 Energy flow (in a food chain, 10% rule, pyramid of energy, how it enters and leaves an ecosystem) 1207463895 Population (population sizes, carrying capacity..etc) 1207463895 Levels of ecosystem - Ecology, Ecosystem, Population, Community, Species and Habitat 1207703453 Human impact on the ecosystem 1207703453 including: KayleeSager
 * Global warming and climate change
 * Water and Air Pollution
 * Acid Raid
 * Overharvesting
 * Loss of Biodiversity

Skills:
Define autotroph, heterotroph, detritivore, saprotroph 1207463895 Draw a good chain/web 1207463895 Draw carbon cycle 1207463895 Estimate population size 1207463895 Know the hierarchy of taxa 1207463895 Know examples of human impact on ecosystem or biosphere 1207463895 Relationship between the natural selection and reproduction of individuals 1207703453 Population Traits (Natality, Immigration, Mortaliy & Emigration) and he diagram of a Sigmoid population curve! 1208876589

Dealing with Data:
Analyzing a pyramid of energy in an ecosystem. 1207463895 Calculating the mean1207649660 Significance of the standard deviation1207649660 Know the Lincoln Index to calculate population size using capture-mark-recapture method (1208166942) Know to to construct an energy pyramid from data given! 1208876589

Things to Watch Out For:
How energy is lost. 1207463895 - 10% retained between each trophic level (1208166942) The specific roles of organisms in each trophic level 1207463895 The different shapes of a pyramid of energy and why. 1207463895 Differerence between flow through an ecosystem and recycling within an ecosystem in terms of nutrients/energy1207649660 Differences between saprotrophs and detritivores1207649660 Autotroph & Heterotroph 1207703453 Learn the classification and hierarchy of 2 examples from 2 different kingdoms! 1208876589

There will probably be a question about:
Constructing a food web containing organisms they give you. 1207463895 Calculating energy flow in a food chain. 1207463895 The capture-mark-release-recapture method. 1207463895 Net primary production1207649660 Explaining the sigmoid curve1207649660 - 3 stages of growth: exponential, transitional, plateau (1208166942) Methods of estimating the population size of an animal species (quadrat/capture-mark-release-recapture), when to use which method1207649660 Effect of natality, immigration, mortality and emigration on the size of population 1207703453 List the techniques that are used to measure the population of animal species and explain each 1207703453