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\nCrash Course: Ecology\n

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\nViewers take a Crash Course in Ecology with a 12-video collection that takes a look at where organisms come from, how they interact, and how they influence their environments. The videos, appropriate for in class or remote learning, use...\n
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\nI'm not lost, I just haven't found my niche. Video discusses niches, including various pronunciations and definitions. It also covers competitive exclusion principle. Video is the 14th in a series of 18.\n
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\nNiche Partitioning Activity\n

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\nDinnertime on the African savanna is a highly choreographed event! Introduce young ecologists to the concept of niche partitioning through a hands-on activity. Pupils research animal behaviors and use data to develop an understanding of...\n
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\nAdaptations to Niches and Habitats\n

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\nLife science learners measure and record traits of seeds, leaves, and their own hands and then graph the data to find a continous distribution curve. They compare and color diagrams of seven different animals' forelimbs (not included),...\n
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\n\"Niches\n\n
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\nNiches and Adaptations\n

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\nStudents present information about a species, its niche, and adaptations. In this lesson on animal environments, students explore how surroundings can affect a given population resulting in adaptation.\n
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\nExploring Arizona's Biotic Communities Lesson 2: Biotic Communities Vocabulary\n

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\nPart of a unit on Arizona's biotic communities, this lesson focuses on the vocabulary to be used. Terms include biodiversity, topography, desert, hybridization, niche, and more! Youngsters will define these words from contextual...\n
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\nRaven Chapter 54 Guided Notes: Community Ecology\n

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\nProviding a sweeping overview of population and community interactions, this ecology worksheet gets learners thinking. They differentiate between habitat and niche, describe and give exemplars of various animal and plant defenses,...\n
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\nCommunity Ecology\n

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\nChart ecological community interactions and answer questions about niche, defenses, trophic structure, and succession. This community ecology activity provides a general overview of the interactions that occur among organisms that share...\n
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\nNiche Partitioning and DNA Metabarcoding\n

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\nWhat is DNA metabarcoding? Show your biology class the latest method for studying biodiversity in an ecosystem with a fun, informative interactive. Individuals examine the animal species that compete for vegetation, then learn how their...\n
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\nDesign a Reef!\n

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\nUsing a miniature coral reef aquarium kit, young ecologists model this unique ecosystem. They research various coral reef organisms and their niches, and they culminate the project by working together to write a report. Use this activity...\n
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\nBig Cats\n

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\nLearners study what a niche is and its role in a community.  For this cats lesson students research the Internet for information on big cat species. \n
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\nLesson Exchange: Species Interactions (Senior, Science)\n

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\nTwelfth graders explain relationships and interactions between species, the difference between a fundamental niche and a realized niche. They explore the various species interactions from their classmates through the jigsaw activity.\n
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\nDrama in the Salt Marsh\n

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\nMiddle schoolers are introduced to the various organisms that live in a salt marsh. They recognize adaptations of organisms that live in the salt marsh. Pupils review concepts of the ecosystem and niche. Students explain the different...\n
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\nFinding Niches\n

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\nIn this niches worksheet, students will observe 2 different bird species around their home or school and complete a chart comparing the birds' food, home, habits, and description.\n
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\nRegents High School Exam: Living Environment 2008\n

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\nThe New York Regents High School Examinations are comprehensive and include various question formats, including multiple choice and graph analysis. This particular version, the 2008 Living Environment exam, surveys a variety of topics....\n
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\nRegents High School Examination: Living Environment 2005\n

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\nThe 2005 version of the Regents High School Examination in ecology is as comprehensive as previous years' exams. It consists of 40 multiple-choice questions on topics ranging from the structure of DNA to interactions within an ecosystem....\n
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\nRegents High School Examination: Living Environment 2003\n

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\nThe living environment, from the interior of a cell to the complex relationships among populations, is queried in this final examination. Learners examine air pollution maps, cell diagrams, population graphs, and drawings of cells. They...\n
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\nCommunity Ecology: Feel the Love\n

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\nWarblers are small birds that have been known to get caught in spider webs. The video covers community ecology, focusing on the Competitive Exclusion Principle using the example of warblers. It also includes fundamental versus realized...\n
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\nIntroduction to Ecology\n

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\nAn educational video offers an overview of ecology and discusses the levels of organization from biosphere down to organisms. It also compares terms such as habitats versus niches, generalist versus specialist, and biotic versus abiotic.\n
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\nAliens Among Us\n

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\nLearners identify plants growing in the school yard and choose one for further investigation. They investigate the plant's biotic potential and environmental resistance. They predict what would happen should they introduce an exotic...\n
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\nCycling of Matter and Energy\n

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\nThese twenty various types of questions related to the cycling of matter and energy require students to match each definition in column 1 with the correct vocabulary term from column 2. Then, students explain what is being demonstrated...\n
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\nCompetition, Predation, and Symbiosis\n

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\nEach biome has self sustaining communities, but how did these unique and stable communities form? Investigate how these evolved with changing animal interactions.\n
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\nUnderstanding Interactions Among Local Species and the Local Environment\n

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\nStudents examine the differences between biotic and abiotic factors, explain the difference between habitat and niche and compare how organisms get their nutritional needs.  In this local environment instructional activity students...\n
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\nDesign a Reef!\n

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\nStudents design a functional model of a coral reef ecosystem. In this coral reef lesson, students identify the energy sources and material cycles of a coral reef. They write an essay about their niche in their own ecosystem.\n
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