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1. What is the description of the event?

2. What safety stuff MUST YOU bring to the event? Circle all that apply.

Goggles apron/lab coat other: ________________

3. What paper resources are you allowed to bring? (example, study guide, book). Make sure to say how many
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4. Other stuff you MUST bring other than what was mentioned. Circle all that apply and add in the stuff
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 ECOLOGY [and Adaptations]- North American Biomes
The event will emphasize these process skills as they apply to ecology: defining variables; analyzing data
from graphs and tables; presenting data in graphs and tables; forming hypotheses; making calculations and
predictions.
Define AND give an example of each:
a. Problem/ Experimental Question

b. Hypothesis:

c. Independent Variable:

d. Dependent Variable:

e. Constants:

f. Experimental Control

g. Materials

h. Qualitative Data

i. Quantitative Data

j. Data table and how to title

k. Types of graphs and how to title

l. Statistics:

a. average (mean),
b. median,
c. mode,
d. range,
e. standard deviation,
f. line of best-fit or other relevant statistics that teams choose

a. Part 1: Review of the General Principles of Ecology using local and regional ecology (Colorado)
i. food webs
ii. trophic pyramids,
iii. nutrient cycling,
iv. community interactions,
v. population dynamics including
1 density dependent/independent limiting factors,
2 carrying capacity,
3 doubling time,
4 exponential/logistical growth and
5 how to calculate population growth
vi. extinction,
vii. selection, and
viii. migration.
ix. life history strategies e.g.,
 1 age structure,
2 survival curves,
3 life tables,
4 succession,
5 R and K strategies

b. Part 2: Terrestrial Ecosystems

i. Ecology of the Deserts and Grasslands
ii. Understand basic concepts of biodiversity
iii. Understand terminology and be able to calculate biodiversity of sample data
1 species richness,
2 Simpson index,
3 Shannon-Wiener index
iv. Be able to apply knowledge of biodiversity
1 plot maps,
2 simulations of selection effects on populations

Part 3: Human Impact on Ecosystems

i. How have humans impacted/caused
i. climate change,
ii. invasive species,
iii. acid rain,
iv. erosion, and
v. pollution
ii. The pros and cons of using alternative energy and its effect on the environment
iii. Understand what the goals of conservation biology are and how they can be obtained
iv. Reclamation of disturbed areas versus reintroduction of species

2. SAMPLE QUESTIONS:
a. From the description of community interactions, create a food web. Then predict what would happen to
the food web if the primary producers were greatly reduced in number by a disease.
b. Given a description of the interaction between two species, identify the type of community interaction.
c. Provide three reasons how a grassland is different than a desert.
d. Compare a grassland with a desert. What kinds of adaptations may be common in both environments?
How are the organisms in each environment adapted for the rates of nutrient recycling that you would
expect to find?