BASICS OF ECOLOGY
Populations: Biotic Potential, Environmental Resistance
After watching "Populations: Biotic Potential, Environmental Resistance" students will be able to:
- Define the terms biotic potential and environmental resistance.
- Describe exponential growth and why it isn’t very common in the natural world.
- Define the term ‘carrying capacity’ and explain how it impacts the growth of species populations.
- Explain environmental resistance.
- Contrast and compare density-dependent and density-independent limits to growth.
- Describe how predators, parasites, and competitors affect the growth of a population.
- Discuss the factors that lead to variations in the distribution of populations in space and time.
- Describe the differences between concave, convex, and constant survivorship curves.
- Describe how births, deaths and migrations affect population growth.
METHODOLOGY :
- Discuss the topics presented in the program with students before showing them the video. This will help you discover what your students already know about the subject as well as create student interest about the topic.
- Also introduce the vocabulary words on the board or overhead projector. Discuss any of the words with which your students are not familiar. The crossword puzzle can also be used to familiarize your students with terms introduced in the program that may be new to them.
Click the links below to download the teaching resources
Teacher's Guide
Multiple Choice Question
Puzzle
Teacher's Guide
Multiple Choice Question
Puzzle
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