U8: Ecology

10-15% of Exam

You’ll explore biological concepts at a broader organism level and analyse how populations interact with ecosystems

Topics may include

• Communcation and responses to enviromental change

• Energy Flow within and across ecosystems

• Factors in the growth, density and success of populations

• Factors in community and ecosystem dynamics

• Invasive species, human interaction and enviromental changes

Topics in this Unit

• 8.1: Responses to the enviroment

• 8.2: Energy flow through ecosystems

• 8.3: Population Ecology

• 8.4: Effect of density of population

• 8.5: Community Ecology

• 8.6: Biodiversity

• 8.7 Disruptions to Ecosystems