1. Ecology

2. Things to cover
Ecology, organism, population, community, ecosystem, biomes, biosphere, biotic and abiotic factors
Terrestrial biomes (tropical rain forest, grassland, desert, temperate forest, tundra, boreal forest, chaparral, savanna, alpine)
Aquatic (freshwater, river, estuary, wetland, intertidal, pelagic, benthic and abyssal, and coral reef

3. Things to cover
Ecological relationships (competition, symbiotic relationships [mutualism, commensalism, parasitism])
Food chains and food webs (producers, consumers, decomposers), trophic levels, energy pyramid

4. Things to cover Biogeochemical cycles
Carbon dioxide and oxygen cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, water cycle
Ecological succession, population dynamics
Endemic and nonnative (invasive species)
Population growth curves, limiting factors
Runoff, eutrophication
Climate change

5. What is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their physical environment.
ECOLOGY

6. A living thing.
Organism

7. This is group of organisms of the same species in the same area at the same time.
POPULATION

8. This is a group of different organisms living together.
Community

9. These are the living things interacting with the nonliving things in the environment.
ECOSYSTEM

10. A complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant and animal species and maintained under the climate conditions of the region, especially such a community that has developed to climax.
BIOME

11. Consists of all life on Earth and all parts of the Earth in which life exists, including land, water, and the atmosphere.
BIOSPHERE

12. Living things in the environment.
BIOTIC FACTORS

13. Nonliving things in the environment.
ABIOTIC FACTORS