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Fourth Nine Weeks Dates Standards/Essential Questions Essential Knowledge/Skills/Understanding Resources Weeks 27-28 BIO.8 The student will investigate and understand dynamic equilibria within populations, communities, and ecosystems. Key concepts include interactions within and among populations including carrying capacities, limiting factors, and growth curves; nutrient cycling with energy flow through ecosystems; succession patterns in ecosystems; the effects of natural events and human activities on ecosystems; and analysis of the flora, fauna, and microorganisms of Virginia ecosystems. In order to meet this standard, it is expected that students will graph and interpret a population growth curve and identify the carrying capacity of the populations. make predictions about changes that could occur in population numbers as the result of population interactions. illustrate and/or model the key processes in the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle and explain the role of living things in each of the cycles. given an illustration of a food chain and a food web, identify each organism as a producer (autotroph), consumer (primary/second order), or decomposer and describe their role in the ecosystem. interpret how the flow of energy occurs between trophic levels in all ecosystems in each of the following: - food chain - food web - pyramid of energy - pyramid of biomass - pyramid of numbers. identify and describe an ecosystem in terms of the following: effects of biotic and abiotic components examples of interdependence evidence of human influences energy flow and nutrient cycling diversity analysis Key Vocabulary Located \\Bcps4\science_pacing_guides\Biology\Vocabulary DOE Lesson Plans Textbook Resources Holt Biology Prentice Hall Resources/Lessons Located \\Bcps4\science_pacing_guides\Biology\Lessons, Resources, and Assessments
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