PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY

Basic principles of ecology
Genially in spanish 
https://view.genial.ly/5ea9a3cfb031cc0d780d457e/presentation-ecologia-4o-eso


Ecology key terms
Visit the previous link, read all the terms and play to some of the built-in games in order to remember them.
Then copy them in your notebook. 
Download and complete this worksheet using the information about Ecology that you will find here


INTERESTING TOPICS:

Biodiversity

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-biodiversity-so-important-kim-preshoff


Feedback loops in nature
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/feedback-loops-how-nature-gets-its-rhythms-anje-margriet-neutel

The carbon cycle
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-carbon-cycle-nathaniel-manning

A guide to the energy of the Earth
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-guide-to-the-energy-of-the-earth-joshua-m-sneideman
What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-would-happen-if-every-human-suddenly-disappeared-dan-kwartler

Re-thinking future: circular economy
https://ed.ted.com/best_of_web/2Yy019iv


DIG DEEPER
More contents about Ecology in this online book

INTERESTING THEMES TO EXPLORE BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

Research topics

1. Human skin colour
2. Massive extinctions (video)
3. Cambrian explosion (video)
4. Artificial evolution: the origin of corn
5. Speciation: the beak of the finch
6. Natural selection: the rock pocket mouse
7. Human evolution: lactase


Use those links to start a research in those different areas. Elaborate a presentation of 4-10 slides to explain the result of your investigation.

Evidence of Evolution

Go to this link and read about the facts that support evolutionism.
Then check your knowledge using this quiz.

Evolution is not just an idea, evolution is a reality and is occurring right now. Watch this video to see how evolution acts (interactive version of the video).

Download this summary of the evidence of evolution to revise this topic and copy it in your note book,

Mendelian inheritance - reading

Read this article from Scitable (Nature) about Mendelian Genetics.

Write down all the terms that you do not know and try to find the appropriate definition for each one in a monolingual dictionary (for example this one) or wikipedia.