Biology - EC: BIO.B.4.2.2
Biology - EC: BIO.B.4.2.2
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- When an organism has to compete with another organism for resources such as food and shelter, this is known as a ____ factor.
- An organism that kills and eats another organism is known as the…
- A tick is a type of insect that lives on a dog and eats it’s blood. The tick does not kill the dog yet benefits by having a food source and a home. Is the tick a predator of the dog? Explain your answer.
- A woman cuts her lawn with a lawnmower. This limits the size of the population of dandelions because she is an example of what type of a control? Abiotic or biotic? Explain your answer.
- In every ecosystem there is a limit to the number of individuals of one species that can survive in the area. Explain how interactions with other organisms that can limit the size of a species.
- Carrying capacity is known as the largest number of individuals of one species that can live in a given area. Identify biotic factors that could limit the size of a population.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Biotic
- Predator
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- No, if the tick were a predator then it would kill the dog.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- Biotic control, because she is a living organism.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- There is a limit to the number of individuals of one species that can survive in one area because the species compete for the same, or similar food sources, shelter, or mate as other within its species in the area.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- Some biotic factors that can limit the number of individuals that can live in one area include; predators, finding a mate and a competition for resources.
