James Island Charter High School
1. List and define the levels of organization used in biology. Identify those that are most closely associated with ecology.
2. Identify how matter and energy behave in an ecosystem.
3. Name two substances that undergo biogeochemical cycles and give the major events that occur in each.
4. Differentiate between nitrification, denitrification, and nitrogen fixation.
5. Identify the following terms and link them to the water cycle: transpiration, evaporation, condensation, absorption, and precipitation.
6. Name and identify the three types of organisms in an ecosystem. What is a niche?
7. Differentiate between food chain, food web, and pyramid of biomass, energy, and numbers. What does each tell you about an ecosystem?
8. Describe ecological succession and define climax community.
9. Distinguish between first, second, and third world countries.
10. Define population and identify four factors that can change population numbers.
11. Identify: logistic growth curve, exponential growth curve, predator/prey growth curve, and a bust and boom growth curve. Identify what is happening at each point of the growth curve
12. Define the following relationships between organisms: competition, predation, producer - consumer, and symbiosis.
13. Define three types of symbiosis and give examples of each.
14. Identify carrying capacity and limiting factor and demonstrate carrying capacity on a population growth curve.
15. Discuss the effects of overcrowding on human populations.
16. Identify the difference between type I, II, III survivorship curves. Identify the differences between r-strategists and K-strategists.
17. Identify and be able to use the equations for exponential growth and logistic growth.