1. Q: What do autotrophs make?
What is an autotroph? Types?
What is a heterotroph? Types?

2. Matter and Energy How does matter moves through an ecosystem?
How does energy move through the trophic levels?

3. The Carbon Cycle

4. The Nitrogen Cycle What is responsible for most of the nitrogen fixation?

5. Succession
What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?
How do you know what stage in success an area is in?

6. Levels of Organization

7. Weather Vs. Climate
Weather is a daily measure, climate is long term

8. Greenhouse Effect What is it? What are green house gases?
Why is this important to know?

9. Niche What is a niche? What is the principle of competitive exclusion?
Why can’t two organisms share the same niche

10. Symbiotic Relationships
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism

11. Populations Range Population density Age structure
Immigration vs. emigration
Logistical vs. exponential growth
Carrying capacity

12. Resources
What is sustainable development?
Renewable vs. non-renewable

13. Cell Structure and Function
Organelles
Ribosomes
Chloroplast
Mitochondria
Nucleolus
Lysosome
Cell membrane
Plants, Animals, bacteria
Compare/contrast prokaryotes and eukaryotes
What are the main differences between plant and animal cells

14. Membrane Transport
Diffusion – the movement of molecules from a high concentration to a low concentration
Osmosis – diffusion of water
Facilitated diffusion – uses a membrane protein channel to move stuff in
Active transport – requires energy to move materials through a membrane transport protein

15. Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
Todays units will be…
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Cells
ET: Look up the equations for photo synthesis and cellular respiration
Write them in words
Write them in symbols

16. ATP – How does ATP release the energy stored in it?
Stored chemical energy that cells use
Comes from the energy store in the glucose you get from your food
Cellular respiration makes atp in the mitochondria

17. Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
How are the two connected?
How are they similar?
How are they different?

18. Photosynthesis – see book diagram ch. 8
What: The process of making glucose using the energy from light, water, and carbon dioxide
Where: Happens in the chloroplast
When: all the time – there are reactions that require light (day) and reactions that do not require light (night)
How: The light dependents reactions in the thylakoid and the light independent reactions (Calvin cycle) in the stroma

19. Respiration – see book diagram ch. 9
What: The process of making cellular energy, ATP, from oxygen and glucose
Where: The mitochondria
When: all the time
How: glycolysis (breaking glucose) – krebs cycle – electron transport
Fermentation?

20. Cells – Structure and Function
“Euk’s have a Nuk”
Structures: Cell membrane, cell wall, nucleus, chloroplast, mitochondrion, ribosome, cytoskeleton, endoplasmic reticulum, glogi)
Membrane: Phospholipid bilayer
Transport: Diffusion (osmosis and facilitated diffusion), active transport

21. Chemistry ch. 2 Todays topics will be…
DNA, Genes, and Protein Synthesis
Chemistry of life
Enzymes and Proteins
ET: What are the 4 macromolecules of life?
What are their monomers called?
What are their polymers called?

22. Chemistry
What are atoms made of?
What is a compound?

23. DNA Structure Made of Nucleotides: phosphate, sugar, base
Bases: guanine, cytosine, thymine, adenine
G-CAT
DNA – Chromosomes – Genes – Amino Acids -Proteins

24. Chemical Reactions in Cells
What are the 4 major biological molecules?
What do enzymes do?

25. Ecology – chapters 3, 4, 5, 6 Todays Units What is population Density?
Limiting factors
Population graphs
Biodiversity
sustainability
Biological Evolution
What is population Density?

26. Transfers and Cycles of Matter and Energy
Energy flows and mater cycles through an ecosystem (ch. 3)
Producers/consumers
Food chains/food webs
Carbon cycle pg. 83
Nitrogen cycle pg. 84

27. Population Density – Ch. 5.1
Pg. 132 Factors that affect PD: birth rate, death rate, and the rate of immigration and emigration.
Exponential Growth: rapid increase in a population due to lac of competition for resources

28. Limiting Factors – Ch. 5.2
There are 5 limiting factors pg. 137 fig. 5-6
What does “density dependent” mean?

29. Biodiversity?
How does biodiversity contribute to sustainability of an ecosystem? (Ch. 6)
Ch. 4 vocabulary
Nich vs. Habitat
Tolerance
Competitive exclusion principle
Keystone species: species that plays a major role in an ecosystem

30. Sustainability/Sustainable Development
Sustainable development provides for human needs wile preserving the ecosystems that produce natural resources
Renewable vs. non-renewable resources
Desertification
Deforestation
Biological magnification