YEAR 11 BIOLOGY UNIT 2 2014 COURSE OUTLINE -The following document is a rough weekly outline of the course.

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Living in the environment: environmental factors and their influence

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2,3,5,6,9,10,11,13,16,17,18,20, environmental factors: biotic and abiotic factors; availability of resources 21,22,24,25 Chapter 7 Worksheets and other material as provided Glossary Chapter 7 1,2,5,6,7,10,11,14,16,17,20,21, physiological adaptations tolerance range of organisms; maintaining 23,24,25
equilibrium by detecting and responding to changes in environmental conditions plant tropisms: growth responses, rhythmic activities

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Living in the environment: regulation and control

PRACTICAL ACTIVITY: ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS A report of a practical activity: Phototropism in wheat seedlings.

Chapter 8

Worksheets and other material as provided Glossary Chapter 8

nerve control in complex multicellular organisms: major sense organs and pathways of transmission of nerve impulses hormonal control in complex multicellular organisms regulating water balance and controlling temperature

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Living in the environment: Behavioural and reproductive adaptations

PRACTICAL ACTIVITY: THERMOREGULATION A report of a practical activity: The skin and temperature control.

1,2,4,6,9,11,12,14,15,17,19,21, behavioural adaptations: individual and group behaviours of animals including rhythmic 23 Chapter 9 Worksheets and other material as provided Glossary Chapter 9
activities, feeding behaviours; communication; social and territorial behaviours reproductive adaptations: systems and strategies; development and life cycles

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Ecosystems: relationships and population

ANNOTATED POSTER Animal adaptations

1,3,4,6,7,9,11,18,19,20,22,23,2 components of ecosystems: communities of living organisms, ecological groupings; 7,28,34,37 ecological niche Chapter 10 Worksheets and other material as provided Glossary Chapter 10
relationships between organisms: feeding including parasite/host, predator/prey, of mutual benefit including mutualism and symbiosis

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Ecosystems: energy and matter

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION Australian habitat

2,3,4,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,16 Chapter11 Worksheets and other material as provided

flow of energy: inputs and outputs of the system cycling of matter: principle of exchange between living and non-living components of the ecosystem population dynamics: carrying capacity of ecosystems; factors affecting distribution and abundance of organisms including birth and death rates, migration change to ecosystems over time scope and intensity of regular and irregular natural changes; succession human activity and the sustainability of ecosystems historical practices of indigenous peoples and settlers techniques for monitoring and maintaining ecosystems.

Glossary Chapter 11

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Ecosystems: change over time

WRITTEN REPORT ON FIELDWORK

1,3,4,5,8,9,10,11,14,15,17,18, 21,23,24,30,38. Chapter 12 Worksheets and other material as provided

Glossary Chapter 12

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