Key Concepts:
Part 3: Ecology
Following completion of this assignment, the student should be able to:
- Describe how the physical world works.
- Describe how energy and nutrients flow through an ecosystem.
- Define biogeochemical cycling.
- Define natural selection and discuss how it contributes to the process of evolution.
- Define biodiversity.
- Recognize that life can be organized into categories by using taxonomic criteria, and demonstrate the correct use of Linnean or binomial system nomenclature to name organisms.
- Describe biomes, and ecosomes.
- Discuss principles of population ecology at the population, community and landscape scales of organization.
- Define and give examples of primary and secondary succession
- Describe the concept of island biogeography.
- Describe disturbance in terms of cause and effect on various ecosystems.
