Ecology and Ecology Booklet.
- Be able to define
habitat, adaptations, ecology and environment.
- Be
able to explain what is meant by the biotic and abiotic factors and
give examples of each.
- Be
able to identify the limiting factor in an environment, (eg. intertidal
zone, desert, rainforest oceans etc.)
- Be
able to list and interpret the main abiotic (physical) factors in an
environment, which also can affect an organism's chance of survival,
(eg .intertidal zone, desert, mangrove swamp etc.)
- Be
able to explain the meaning of nocturnal and diurnal.
- Be able to write
the word equation for photosynthesis and the respiration reaction (reverse
of photosynthesis)
- Be able to list
and explain some adaptations of plants and animals to a semi-arid environment.
- Be able to compare
and contrast cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals and explain how their
body temperature can affect their distribution in various habitats.
- Be able to explain
how some warm-blooded animals are adapted to cold regions.
- Be able to draw,
label and interpret diagrams of the carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen cycles.
- Be able to define
community, resources and niche.
- Understand
the meaning of, and be able to define the terms, producers, consumers,
decomposers, herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, scavengers and decomposers.
- Understand
what a food chain and food web is, and be able to interpret and draw
them.
- Know
the use of the terms first order consumer, second order consumer etc.
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Be
able to name the decomposers in a community.
- Know
what the pyramid of numbers is.
- Know the order
of organisms in a food chain and be sure that the arrows are written
in the correct direction.
- Be
able to explain the meaning of the term symbiosis.
- Be
able to define cooperation, commensalism, mutualism and parasitism with
examples.
- Know
the difference between internal and external parasites.
- Be
able to explain the meaning of the terms predation and competition.
- Be
able to identify the type of relationship between organisms from given
information about relationships.
- Be
able to identify organisms that are competing with each other.
- Be
able to interpret a predator/ prey relationship.
Rock Types Booklet
- Be able to complete digrams of the rock cycle.
- Be able to define the three main types of rocks - sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic.
- Know the three main types of sedimentary rocks - be able to explain their formation and give examples.
- know the processes that form sedimentary rocks - weathering, transportation, deposition and lithification.
- know the meaning of compaction and cementation.
- know the main structures common to sedimentary rocks - layering, fossils
- Be able to use a key to identify sedimentary rocks.
- be able to compare chemical and physical eweathering.
- be able to use fossils to correlate layers of rocks
- know the main types of igneous rocks - intrusive (Plutonic) and extrusive (Volcanic)
- Know the difference between magma and lava.
- Be able to compare plutonic and volcanic rocks.
- know the main features by which igneous rocks are classified.
- Be able to compare felsic and mafic rocks. e.g. granite and gabbro.
- Be able to use a key to identify igneous rocks.
- know the two main types of memamorphic rocks and the conditions under which they form.
- know the meaning of the term contact aureole.
- know the meaning of foliation in metamorphic rocks.
- Be able to use a key to identify metamorphic rocks.
- Be able to compare igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks.
Ecology
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