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Unit 8: CHAPTER 40,41,42,44
ECOLOGY
Objectives:
- Describe characteristics of populations.
- Understand the concepts of carrying capacity and limiting factors.
- Describe the ways in which populations are distributed.
- Explain the trends in human population growth.
- Compare the age structure of representative nongrowing, slowly growing, and rapidly growing countries.
- Predict the consequences of continued population growth
- Describe characteristics of populations.
- Understand the concepts of carrying capacity and limiting factors.
- Describe the ways in which populations are distributed.
- Explain the trends in human population growth.
- Compare the age structure of representative nongrowing, slowly growing, and rapidly growing countries.
- Predict the consequences of continued population growth.
- Recognize how unfavorable abiotic and biotic factors affect a species.
- Describe how ranges of tolerance affect the distribution of organisms.
- Recognize the stages of primary and secondary succession.
Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFViSog6ZJw&t=3s
Videos and other articles--PBS Nature (great site!): http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/
Film: Living Together (watched in class): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGwHX0tcRB8
Racing Extinction Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgjQJdsySrM