VA SOL's
LS.6: The student will investigate and understand that organisms within an ecosystem are dependent on one another and on nonliving components of the environment. Key concepts include
a) the carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles;
c) complex relationships within terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.
LS.9: The student will investigate and understand how organisms adapt to biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem. Key concepts include
a) differences between ecosystems and biomes;
b) characteristics of land, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.
c) adaptations that enable organisms to survive within a specific ecosystem.
a) the carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles;
c) complex relationships within terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.
LS.9: The student will investigate and understand how organisms adapt to biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem. Key concepts include
a) differences between ecosystems and biomes;
b) characteristics of land, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.
c) adaptations that enable organisms to survive within a specific ecosystem.
What do you need to know to be successful for this unit?
- What is the difference between a population, a community, an ecosystem and a biome?
- What characteristics indicate a desert biome?
- What characteristics indicate a rainforest biome?
- What characteristics indicate a deciduous forest biome?
- What characteristics indicate a taiga/coniferous forest biome?
- What characteristics indicate a tundra biome?
- What characteristics indicate a grasslands biome?
- What adaptations are needed to help organisms survive in various biomes?
- What biotic and abiotic factors affect a biome?
- How are water, carbon, and nitrogen recycled within an ecosystem?
- What is eutophication? How does eutrophication affect ecosystems?
populations, communities,
ecosystems, biomes
biomes research
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Other Sources for Biomes Project:
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the water & carbon cycles
the nitrogen cycle & eutrophication
Eutrophication Tutorial #1
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Eutrophication Tutorial #2
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