The Eighth Unit of Biology is Ecology

The following standards will be covered in this Unit:

• BIO.B.4.1.1 - Describe the levels of ecological organization (i.e., organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere).
• BIO.B.4.1.2 - Describe characteristic biotic and abiotic components of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
• BIO.B.4.2.1 - Describe how energy flows through an ecosystem (e.g., food webs, food chains, energy pyramids).
• BIO.B.4.2.2 - Describe biotic interactions in an ecosystem (e.g., competition, predation, symbiosis).
• BIO.B.4.2.3 - Describe how matter recycles through an ecosystem (i.e., water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle, nitrogen cycle).
• BIO.B.4.2.4 - Describe how ecosystems change in response to natural and human disturbances (e,g., climate changes, introduction of nonnative species, pollution, fires). BIO.B.4.2.5 - Describe the effects of limiting factors on population dynamics and potential species extinction.

Here are the workbook pages for this Unit.  We will be  covering sections 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, and 7.2.