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**Unit 2- The Ecosystem**
[] The costs of defending a territory – weighing up the pros and cons of certain behaviour

[] Foraging behaviour – how Bluegill Sunfish alter their feeding strategy depending on the prey available

[] Exponential Growth Simulation

[] Predator-Prey Simulation

[] Primary Succession on a Glacial Moraine

[] Rain Shadow – how topography can affect the abiotic factors of the ecosystem environment

[] Terrestrial Biomes

[] The Water Cycle

[] The Global Carbon Cycle

[] The Ocean Conveyor Belt – both physical and biological processes control the carbon cycle

[] The Global Nitrogen Cycle

Unit 3-Human Population, Carrying Capacity and Resource Use

**Unit 4- Conservation and Biodiversity**
[] evolution of the continents – great introduction to plate tectonics

[] Introduction to different types of natural selection using mimicry in butterflies to explain

[] The costs of adaptation – how being better adapted can often come at a price and whether the price is too high or costly if the environment were to change

[] The origin of a new species – allopatric, sympatric and parapatric speciation

[] Habitat Fragmentation and its effects on biodiversity

[] Simulations on tectonic movement – convergent, divergent etc.

****Unit 5-Pollution management****