Monday, October 3, 2011

Week 4-5 Goals and Notebook Contents

Goals: (Friday's quiz will focus on these goals.)
1. Know and correctly use the terms: Trophic Level, Consumer, Producer, Food Web, Niche, Invasive Species, Carrying Capacity Equilibrium, Feedback, Tragedy of the Commons
2. Describe how equilibrium is achieved and give examples of equilibrium in natural systems.
3. Use concepts of feedback and carrying capacity to explain population growth patterns.*
4. Describe multiple types of connections within an ecosystem:*
Food webs, Trophic levels, Predator-prey interactions.

Notebook Contents: (These should be in your notebooks when you turn them in on Friday.)
1. A Study of Population Growth II
2. Biology Notes, Biobottle Observations
3. Food Webs, Populations and Invasive Species
4. HW: read p86-89,112-115,133 answer Q p.115 #1-4
5. Feedback Practice/Week 4-5 Review Worksheet
6. The tragedy of the commons (We'll do this in class on Friday.)