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//Enduring Knowledge/Global Goals in Italics: Students will understand// // … // (Assessed with Performance tasks and projects) important for students to understand and remember in the far future Educational Objectives/Foundational Knowledge: Students will be able to … (Assessed with traditional quizzes and tests) important for students to understand and remember in the near future //The range of relationships between species and how to classify novel relationships into categories.// Distinguish beneficial, detrimental, and neutral relationships between species and label them competition, predation/parasitism/disease, mutualism, commensalism. Predict potential consequences for invasive species depending on interspecific relationships. Chapter 13: Competition //How competition can affect species composition.// Define a niche. Explain why a species may not inhabit territories that fit within their abiotic requirements: difference between fundamental and realized niches. Predict possible outcomes for overlapping niches: competitive exclusion. Apply the six criteria for character displacement on a novel system. Describe an example of inter and intra specific competitive relationships. Distinguish between exploitative, apparent, interference, scramble, and contest competition. OBJECTIVE FOR MATHEMATIC MODELS Chapter 14: Exploitative Interactions //The commonality between predators, parasites, and diseases.// Classify examples of predators, parasites, diseases, prey and hosts as positively or negatively affected in a relationship. //Exploitation relationships from both sides and the outcomes of these relationships.// Graph cycles of predator and prey populations and label correct axes. List 3 ways of escaping exploitation: prey defenses (including ones that change over the lifetime of the organism i.e. size and age). Describe how prey population dynamics can prevent predation: abundance (predator satiation) and distribution (refuges) Recognize the interplay play between density and prey defenses like Batesian mimicry and aposematism. List 3 ways of increasing exploitation: predator adaptations. Describe role of metapopulations on predator persistence. Describe 3 examples of exploitative relationships. Describe the difference between functional response curves and identify the different components each incorporates (learning, handling time, etc.) Interpret a scenario using the Optimal Foraging Theory and the Marginal Value Theorem. Chapter 15: Mutualisms //The cost/benefit nature of mutualisms and discuss how this leads to their coevolution.// Distinguish between symbiosis, commensalisms, and mutualisms. Describe 2 examples of commensalistic relationships. Describe 3 examples of mutualistic relationships. Indicate the potential costs and benefits to those mutualistic relationships. Define coevolution. Discuss how mutualisms and predator/prey relationships are examples of coevolution. Life history for conservation Metapopulations into persistence of predators Functional responses and numerical responses Coevolution and mutualisms and predator/prey Mimicry and density dependence of batesian mimicry Students will feel comfortable dissecting an equation and asking about the biological significance of different components.
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