Unit 2: Chapters 5* & 6 (Evolution and Ecology)

Assignment / Due Date
First article check / Wednesday, 9/27
Read Chapter 5, pp 112-125; 132-136: TYC 1-4,6; SS 4,5; IGD 1-3 / Wednesday, 9/27
Natural Selection Lab / Thursday, 9/28; data and analysis due 10/6
Bt Corn article questions / Monday, 10/2
Graphic Organizer – Scaling Earth’s Life History / Tuesday, 10/3
Second article check / Wednesday, 10/4
Chapter 6: TYC 1-9, SS1, IGD 1-3 / Thursday, 10/5
Personal Food Audit / Food log due Thursday, 10/05; report due 10/16
Species Interactions worksheet (graphic) / Thursday, 10/5
Biomes Presentations / Monday, 10/09 & Tuesday, 10/10
Third article check / Thursday, 10/12
Energy Loss through Heat / Data collection 10/6; data and analysis due 10/12
Unit 2 Test / Friday, 10/13

* We are only covering part of chapter 5 during this unit; we are saving the population ecology section until unit 4


Unit 2 Vocabulary

Chapter 5 (minus population material)

adaptation

adaptive trait

artificial selection

biodiversity

biological diversity

biosphere

communities

community ecology

Darwin, Charles

ecosystem ecology

ecosystems

ecotourism

endemic

evolution

extinction

generalists

habitat

habitat use

K-selected

mass extinction events

mutation

natural selection

niche

population

r-selected

selective breeding

sex ratio

specialists

speciation

species

sympatric speciation

Wallace, Alfred Russell

Chapter 6

amensalism

biome

boreal forest

chaparral

climate diagrams (climatographs)

commensalism

competition

desert

ecological restoration

food webs

fundamental niche

herbivory

invasive species

keystone species

mutualism

parasitism

pioneer species

predation

primary succession

realized niche

resilience

resistance

resource partitioning

restoration ecology

savannas

secondary succession

succession

symbiosis

temperate deciduous forest

temperate grasslands

temperate rainforest

trophic levels

tropical dry forest

tropical rainforest

tundra