Population Dynamics
Curriculum Expectations
Overall ExpectationsF1. analyse the relationships between population growth, personal consumption, technological development, and our ecological footprint, and assess the effectiveness of some Canadian initiatives intended to assist expanding populations; F2. investigate the characteristics of population growth, and use models to calculate the growth of populations within an ecosystem; F3. demonstrate an understanding of concepts related to population growth, and explain the factors that affect the growth of various populations of species. |
Specific Expectationsf1.1 analyse the effects of human population growth, personal consumption, and technological development on our ecological footprint (e.g., the deforestation resulting from expanding development and demand for wood products causes the destruction of habitats that support biological diversity; the acidification of lakes associated with some industrial processes causes a decrease in fish populations) f2.2 use conceptual and mathematical population growth models to calculate the growth of populations of various species in an ecosystem (e.g., use the concepts of exponential, sigmoid, and sinusoidal growth to estimate the sizes of various populations) f3.1 explain the concepts of interaction (e.g., competition, predation, defence mechanism, symbiotic relationship, parasitic relationship) between different species |