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CHAPTER 15 ECOLOGY CHECKLIST

This checklist is designed to help you check if you have mastered all the learning
objectives in this chapter.

On a scale from 1 to 5, rate how confident you are about the specific objective, with 5
being most confident.

If you are not confident in the particular objective, suggest how you are going to
become an expert at it. Remember to be honest with yourself, you are your best
judge.

Learning objective Confidence What am I going to do to


level (1-5)
master this
1. Explain the importance of physical factors like air,

water, temperature, light, mineral salts and pH to the

life of organisms.
2. Explain the terms

• Habitat: ______________________________

• Population: ___________________________

• community: ___________________________

• producers: ___________________________

• consumers: ___________________________

• Decomposers: _________________________
3. Identify a habitat and some of the organisms
associated with it.
4. Understand the interrelationship among the various
organisms in a community.
• predator-prey relationship:
__________________________________
• mutualism:
__________________________________
• parasitism:
__________________________________
5. Show an understanding that the habitat together
with the organisms living in it forms an ecosystem.
6. Differentiate a food chain from a food web.
7. Construct a food web in a specific habitat.
8. Describe the non-cyclic flow of energy through
the food chain in a named ecosystem starting
with the green plants as a primary food
producer.
9. Explain the diminishing energy transfer as
illustrated in a food pyramid.
10. Understands that nutrient is recycled in living
organisms.
11. Describe briefly
•carbon cycle
•nitrogen cycles.
12. Discuss the role of the carbon and nitrogen cycles
in maintaining a balanced ecosystem.
13. Explain the role of decomposers in the
ecosystem.
14. Predict the consequences of selective addition or
removal of an organism from an environment.
15. Explain the importance of conserving the
environment.

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