1. Ecology Unit 2 Day 1

2. Ecology Unit 2

3. Pg. 47, 3 Column Vocabulary
Biodiversity Ecological Diversity Habitat Niche Population Distribution Population Density Resource Partitioning Species Richness

4. Human Impact Ecology
Unit 3

5. IN pg. 48
What are ways you disturb the land or environment every day in your life? Think of at least 3.

6. Do it now Pg. 48
What are 3 environmental factors that influence what you do during the day?

7. Thru 1 pg. 49
Describe the interaction in this picture. 3+sentences

8. Thru 2 pg. 49
What is competition?

9. Title - Communities
Cornell Notes Pg. 51

10. What is a community?

11. What are Community Interactions
Predation(+-)
One organism kills and eats another organism.

12. What is competition? Competition(--)
2 organisms are competing for the same resource.
May be interspecific (between members of different species) or intraspecific (between members of the same species).

13. What are Niche and Habitat?
Habitat-place where an organism lives.
Niche-role and position a species has in its environment.
Organisms with the same niche compete if they are in the same habitat.

14. How do Stability & Disturbance work together?
Disturbance-events that change a community by removing organisms or changing resource availability.
Stability is the ability of a community to resist disturbance and not change.

15. What is Biodiversity? The variety of life in an area.
Measured by species richness-the number of different species in an ecosystem.
Extinction is when the last individual of a species disappears.
Endangered species=species that are likely to become extinct.
Threatened species=species that are close to becoming endangered.
Biodiversity increases the stability of a community

16. Which has more species diversity?

17. Thru 3 Pg. 50
How do Stability & Disturbance work together?

18. Thru 3 pg. 50
It is often said that a habitat is the organisms “address” and its niche is like its “job”. Please explain this in 3+ sentences.

19. Do it again pg. 48
What is a community?

20. Out pg. 48
What is competition?