Unit 2: Daily Quiz #9

Learning Targets: I can... 1. Define Ecology, list the levels of ecological organization, differentiate between abiotic and biotic factors, distinguish between an organisms habitat and niche. 2. Interpret the flow of energy in ecosystems in terms of trophic levels, the arrows in food webs and food chains, ecological pyramids, the source of energy, and loss of energy and amount of energy transferred. 3. Describe the different interactions between organisms in a community including predation, competition, mutualism, parasitism, commensalism, and invasive species in terms of who benefits and who is harmed. 4. Predict the effects of the introduction or loss of an organism on an ecological food web in terms of how other populations change. 5. Compare and Contrast Primary and Secondary Succession in terms of what starts succession, how the abiotic factors affect the speed of the succession, the order of changes during succession and the ending climax. 6. Describe the different kinds of population dispersion. 7. Calculate the density of a population in a given area. 8. Calculate the growth of a population in terms of the number of births, deaths, emigration, and immigrations. 9. Identify and describe how the factors (density-dependent) affect the growth of populations and the carrying capacity (increase, decrease, stay the same). 10. Differentiate between population growth models in terms of speed of growth, limiting factors, and carrying capacity.

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