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Curated OER

Sample Midyear Examination (Chemistry and Biology)

For Students 7th - 12th
A 12-page midterm exam sample can be given to young scientists in preparation for an exam. This particular installment is geared toward a class that delves into both ecology and chemistry concepts. There is no way to separate the 50...
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Curated OER

AP: Chapter 52: Population Ecology

For Students 9th - 12th
For AP biology or ecology classes, here is a worksheet that explores population growth. Carrying capacity, limiting factors, and k-strategies are dealt with using short-answer questions. 
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Vocabulary-Populations

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this populations worksheet, students are given 4 terms to define, they draw a representation of each term and they indicate what they are reminded of by the term. The topics include populations, communities, limiting factors and carry...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

How Ecosystems Change

For Students 4th - 8th
In this ecosystems learning exercise, students will look at 4 diagrams and determine if either primary or secondary succession would occur after that particular event happened. Then students will determine the limiting factor for 4...
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Curated OER

How Many Penguins Does It Take? Studying Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors

For Teachers 4th - 12th
How does a population's habitat determine the size of that population? Teach learners about carrying capacity and limiting factors with an engaging roleplay activity. Class members pose as a colony of penguins who must gather food amidst...
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Curated OER

Being Productive in the Arctic Ocean

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the three realms of the Arctic Ocean, and describe the relationships between these realms. They identify major factors that limit primary productivity in the Arctic Ocean.
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Relationships Among Living Things

For Students 7th - 9th
In this relationships among living things instructional activity, students determine if given statements are true or false. Students correct the false statements making them true. Also, students answer several short questions that...
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Relationships Among Living Things

For Students 7th - 12th
In this living things worksheet, students review terms and concepts about the different relationships between living things. This worksheet has 7 true or false and 5 short answer questions.
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Community Distribution

For Students 7th - 12th
In this community distribution worksheet, students will review 5 terms associated with biomes, ecosystems, and communities. Students will then match 11 terms as either relating to marine biomes or land biomes. This worksheet has 5 fill...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Factors That Affect Populations

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this population worksheet, students will brainstorm 6 different factors that can affect an organism's population. Students will write down their ideas in this graphic organizer.
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Water Environments

For Students 5th - 8th
In this water environments worksheet, students will brainstorm limiting factors in water biomes, describe the two life zones in the ocean, and compare two types of freshwater ecosystems. This worksheet has 9 short answer questions.
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Worksheet
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Interactions Among Living Organisms

For Students 4th - 6th
In this animal population worksheet, students will complete 8 short answer questions based on population density, including limiting factors and carrying capacity.
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Unit 1 Week 5

For Students 6th - 9th
In this word search worksheet, students locate and identify six vocabulary terms listed. There are six words/phrases located in the puzzle.  
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Limiting Factors/Evolution Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers play a board game with provided cards which help them realize that limiting factors may restrict an organism in its development and productivity and direct evolutionary pathways.
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Curated OER

Learning From Leaves: Adaptation Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners participate in an adaptation scavenger hunt at. They obtain various plant specimens, and sort the plants based on whether they came from a desert, tropical rainforest, or wetlands.
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Population Dynamics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students watch a video on population dynamics. They conduct an experiment where they fill up a designated space with students. They recreate multiplying rabbits using beans.
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Handout
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Population Growth

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students control the environments in four different scenarios to discover how any changes might affect populations. The different simulations include microorganisms, rabbits, foxes, and other organisms.
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Handout
Other

Clemson Cooperative Extension: The Basics of Population Dynamics [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn the many ecological factors that affect the carrying capacity for populations of wild species.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biomes and Population Dynamics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson begins with a PowerPoint slideshow that covers important ecological concepts about biomes, limiting factors, carrying capacity, and population growth. Learners will look at the population dynamics involved with the diversity...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Competition of Abiotic and Biotic Factors

For Students 7th - 9th
This tutorial explores abiotic and biotic factors with videos and interactive activities.
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Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Biotic vs. Abiotic

For Students 9th - 10th
This NY Regents prep site provides a nice overview of what abiotic and biotic factors of an ecosystem are, as well as a brief description of carrying capacity.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Population Size

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How environmental factors put limits on population sizes.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Sea Level and the Terrapin

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students build a model ecosystem to simulate the life and limiting factors of the Terrapin turtle.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Where Have All the Scrub Jays Gone?

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn how organisms rely on one another but also compete with one another within the same ecosystem.