Southmoreland High School

Module B -  

 

 This animation shows a year after year shift in the plant life on planet Earth

 

 

 

II. Food Webs - http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/food/food_menu.html 

 

III A. Carbon Cycle -  http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Water/co2_cycle.html

 

III B. Nitrogen Cycle - http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Life/nitrogen_cycle.html 

 

IV Population - http://www.geography4kids.com/files/land_population.html

 

 

V (Part I). Biodiversity - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110823180459.htm 

 

V (Part III) Biomes Around the World - http://www.mbgnet.net/ 

 

 

 

 

The hierarchy of Ecology from smallest to largest: The videos below progress in this order. 

 

 

Organism: (Individual)

Population: (Group of a Species)

Community: (Many different Populations in an area)

Ecosystem: (The living and non-living things in an area) 

Biome: (Collection of Ecosystems, categorized by amount of rainfall and temperature) 

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Biosphere: (Every part of the Earth that supports living things) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

ACTIVITY 

Complete a really cool virtual lab about the interactions between the protists, P. aurelia and P. caudatum that Hank Green referred to @ 2:30 in the Community Ecology video above, click here.  On that page, you can find a table you can print and fill out, and then go the the virtual lab, or click here.  

 

 

 

 Ecology Overview (Biomes)