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Ecology Unit Quick Study Card
Your task is to create a quick study card for the first unit exam. Thiswill be DUE on Tuesday, September 27, 2016. Keep all items from unit one in this file folder.
Total Points / Self-Grade / Teacher Grade
  1. Ecology and Ecological Hierarchy
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  1. Biotic and abiotic factors: Define and give two examples of each. Also provide an example of each listed below.
  • Abiotic factor affecting a biotic factor
  • Biotic factor affecting an abiotic factor
  • Biotic factor affecting a biotic factor.
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  1. Made a table with the following information: producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, decomposers, detrivores, detritus. Define each term and give two examples of each
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  1. Draw a food web with at least 2 different producers, 2 different primary consumers, 2 different secondary consumers, and 1 top predator. Label each tropic level. Draw arrows in the direction of energy flow (include the sun).
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  1. Draw an ecological pyramid. Include 4-5 tropic levels and illustrate the 10% rule. Which Law of energy does the 10% rule represent?
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  1. Define Gross Primary Productivity, Respiration, and Net Primary Productivity. What is the formula for calculating? Give an example of a problem to show how to use the formula.
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  1. Draw the carbon cycle and indicate the following processes: photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, and combustion. Which processes are biologic? Which process must be reduced to reduce climate change? What are the 2 major carbon sinks (storage)? 2 Sources?
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  1. Draw the nitrogen cycle and include the following processes: nitrification, nitrogen fixation, assimilation, ammonification, and denitrification. Define each process (nitrification, nitrogen fixation, assimilation, ammonification, and denitrification)What is the major reservoir of nitrogen?
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  1. Draw the water cycle and include the following terms: evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, percolation. What is the importance of trees / forests to the water cycle?
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  1. Draw the phosphorus cycle. Include the term guano. What is unique about this cycle?
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  1. Make a table with the following information: Biodiversity, genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity. Define and give an example of each.
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  1. Earth Science: Convergent, Divergent, and Transform Plate Boundary Characteristics and Notable Locations.
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  1. Tragedy of the Commons: Explain and give examples.
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  1. Interactions Between Species: Symbioses and Predator-Prey Relationships
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  1. Draw a diagram and explain the concept of island biogeography.
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  1. Bioaccumulation and the Bald Eagle: DDT
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  1. Primary vs Secondary Succession
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Accuracy, Neatness and Appropriate use of Color. Color needs to be embedded and used appropriately. Everything needs to be hand drawn. / 5
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