2. ECOLOGY  The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment STANDARD S7L4 INTERDEPENDENCE OF LIFE ECOLOGY Students will examine the dependence of organisms on one another and their environments.

3. POPULATIONS & COMMUNITIES Categorize relationships between organisms that are competitive or mutually beneficial.

4. ECOSYSTEM ORGANIZATION PYRAMID

7. INDIVIDUAL ONE ORGANISM, A SINGLE LIVING THING

8. POPULATION A GROUP OF INTERBREEDING ORGANISMS (SPECIES) LIVING IN THE SAME AREA

10. COMMUNITY ALL TYPE OF ORGANISMS LIVING IN THE SAME AREA; POPULATIONS THAT LIVE TOGETHER

12. ECOSYSTEM ALL THE ORGANISMS LIVING IN THE SAME AREA (COMMUNITY) AND THEIR NONLIVING ENVIRONMENT

14. BIOME ONE OF SEVERAL MAJOR TYPES OF ECOSYSTEMS (LIKE A RAINFOREST, DESERT OR FOREST)

15. BIOSPHERE THE ECOSYSTEM OF PLANET EARTH; THE PART OF EARTH THAT CONTAINS ALL ECOSYSTEMS

21. " There are good things to see in tidepools and there are exciting and interesting thoughts to be generated from the seeing. Every new eye applied to the peep hole which looks out at the world may fish in some new beauty and some new pattern, and the world of the human mind must be enriched by such fishing." John Steinbeck, in the forward from Between Pacific Tides

23. ENERGY FLOW IN ECOSYSTEMS Explain in a food web that sunlight is the source of energy and that this energy moves from organism to organism.

27. EARTH’S BIOMES Describe the characteristics of Earth’s major terrestrial biomes and aquatic communities.