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The following chapters should be completed during the first marking period. All materials will support the class lectures and activities.
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Chapter 3 - The Biosphere

Goal:   The students will identify relationships among various types of organisms that they have observed in their immediate environment.

Terminology covered: ecology, biosphere, species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, autotroph, producer, photosynthesis, chemosynthesis, heterotroph, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, detritovore, decomposer, food chain, food web, trophic level, ecological pyramid, biomass, water cycle

Chapter 4 - Ecosystems and Communities

Goal:   Students will be able to identify relationships among different organisms and between organisms and nonliving factors in a model ecosystem.

Terminology covered: weather, climate, greenhouse effect, biotic factor, abiotic factor, habitat, niche, resource, competitive exclusion principle, predation, symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, ecological succession, primary succession, pioneer species, secondary succession, biome, competition

Chaper 5 - Populations
Goal:  Students will understand the factors that influence a population.
Terminology covered: population density, immigration, emigration, exponential growth, logistic growth, carrying capacity, limiting factor, density-dependent limiting factor, predator-prey relationship, density-independent limiting factor, demography, demographic transition, age-structure diagram

Chapter 6 - Humans in the Biosphere

Goal:  Students will understand the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources.

Terminology covered: agriculture, monoculture, green revolution, renewable resource, nonrenewable resource, sustainable development, soil erosion, desertification, deforestation, aquaculture, smog, pollutant, acid rain, ozone layer, global warming, indicator