Shubert, Alex / Unit 5: Ecology

Elizabethtown Area Middle School
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Shubert, Alex
Unit 5: Ecology

ECOLOGY

Key Questions:

1. What is an ecosystem and what are two ways biotic factors depend on abiotic factors?

2. What does a food chain show and what are three roles organisms have to obtain energy?

Food Web Game 1

Food Web Game 2

Food Web Game 3

Food Web Game 4

3. What prevents a population from growing too large?

4. What are three kinds of symbiosis?

Symbiosis

5. What is IPM and what are the four methods used to control pests?

Penn State IPM Program

Pest Fact Sheets

Control Pests with Predators

Pest World for Kids

Vocabulary (missing "energy pyramid" and "carrying capacity"):

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