climax, sub-climax and Developing extended Students will understand the outputs and stores and plagioclimax. writing skills. application of systems concepts to transfers in ecosystems. ecosystem, including: Mineral nutrient cycling. Using atlas maps. Opportunity for students to Net primary production: inputs Sun (solar radiation), – use textbook, library or Nature of terrestrial Producing annotated plants (dispersal), animals internet resources to help interesting NASA animation of Net ecosystems and the maps. (migration), Soil organic matter produce a generic systems Primary Productivity between (erosion/deposition) Practising exam-style diagram to illustrate the climate, vegetation, soil outputs longwave radiation, – questions. Including inputs and outputs of a and topography which Succession: heat, dispersal of plants, the use of peer typical ecosystem. They produce them. migration of animals, erosion/ assessment. should also construct a Ecosystem responses to leaching of soil organic matter diagram to illustrate the Conducting changes in one or more Bozeman science video clip sores and transfers of energy generalised energy flow and independent and of their components or CrashCourse video clip and materials including ideas – heat loss through an group research tasks. environmental controls. such as photosynthesis, ecosystem. biomass, consumption, Making within, Factors influencing the Mineral nutrient cycles: Students to research the decomposition, maintenance, across and beyond changing of ecosystems, concepts of biomass and net respiration, heat transfers and this area of the including climate change Terrestrial ecosystems: primary productivity. outputs. specification. and exploitation of the global environment. Students to explore the Students will understand the Report writing. concept of succession, concepts of: including: biomass in an ecosystem – seral stages community biomass; amount of Human exploitation of ecosystems: climatic climax one species; decaying material sub-climax net primary productivity - plagioclimax. including the ideas of primary This may involve the productivity and of gross production of a traditional primary productivity. set of revision notes. Students will be able to evaluate Small group research task to the concept of succession, explore the role of mineral including: nutrient cycling in seral stages ecosystems. Including the climatic climax nature of nutrient transfers sub-climax – students to produce a set of plagioclimax. revision notes and construct Students will be able to evaluate a diagram to illustrate a the role of mineral nutrient cycling
climax, sub-climax and plagioclimax. Mineral nutrient cycling. Nature of terrestrial ecosystems and the between climate, vegetation, soil and topography which produce them. Ecosystem responses to changes in one or more of their components or environmental controls. Factors influencing the changing of ecosystems, including climate change and exploitation of the global environment. Developing extended writing skills. Using atlas maps. Producing annotated maps. Practising exam-style questions. Including the use of peer assessment. Conducting independent and group research tasks. Making within, across and beyond this area of the specification. Report writing. Students will understand the application of systems concepts to ecosystem, including: inputs – Sun (solar radiation), plants (dispersal), animals (migration), Soil organic matter (erosion/deposition) outputs – longwave radiation, heat, dispersal of plants, migration of animals, erosion/ leaching of soil organic matter sores and transfers of energy and materials – including ideas such as photosynthesis, biomass, consumption, decomposition, maintenance, respiration, heat transfers and outputs. Students will understand the concepts of: biomass in an ecosystem – community biomass; amount of one species; decaying material net primary productivity - including the ideas of primary productivity and of gross primary productivity. Students will be able to evaluate the concept of succession, including: seral stages climatic climax sub-climax plagioclimax. Students will be able to evaluate the role of mineral nutrient cycling outputs and stores and transfers in ecosystems. Opportunity for students to use textbook, library or internet resources to help produce a generic systems diagram to illustrate the inputs and outputs of a typical ecosystem. They should also construct a diagram to illustrate the generalised energy flow and heat loss through an ecosystem. Students to research the concepts of biomass and net primary productivity. Students to explore the concept of succession, including: seral stages climatic climax sub-climax plagioclimax. This may involve the production of a traditional set of revision notes. Small group research task to explore the role of mineral nutrient cycling in ecosystems. Including the nature of nutrient transfers – students to produce a set of revision notes and construct a diagram to illustrate a Net primary production: interesting NASA animation of Net Primary Productivity Succession: Bozeman science video clip CrashCourse video clip Mineral nutrient cycles: Terrestrial ecosystems: Human exploitation of ecosystems:
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