Objectives

• Summarize the levels of organization ecologists study
• Identify biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem
• Understand how one change can affect many other factors
• Describe the roles of producers and consumers
• Analyze feeding relationships in a food web
• Summarize the biogeochemical cycles

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Assignment Checklist:
(these are the assignments you must turn in)

• 14.01
• 14.02
• 14.03
• 14.04

Vocabulary

• ecology
• environment
• levels of organization
• ecosystem
• biome
• populations
• community
• biotic factors
• abiotic factors
• biodiversity
• keystone species
• native species
• non-native species
• invasive species
• producers
• consumers
• decomposers
• food chain
• food web
• energy pyramid
• biogeochemical cycles

Schedule (you may work ahead of schedule)

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