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LIMITING
FACTORS
Goals: This
unit exposes students to the concept that limiting factors control all
parts of an ecosystem. These limiting factors will differ from system
to system and from species to species. Discussion will involve fire, predator/prey
relationships, habitat, and adaptation. Activities are designed to help
students understand and identify these factors and the responsible role
of humans within the ecosystems.
Objectives:
By completing this unit, the students will be able to:
- define limiting
factors.
- compare prairie,
forest, and cave adapted animals and identify the limiting factors that
affect them.
- name an animal
and list the components of its habitat, then describe how limiting any
component will affect that animal.
- list reasons to
manage a park and evaluate how two different management techniques might
work.
- discuss reasons
why people should obey hunting and collecting laws.
- describe food webs
and the problems that occur if new limiting factors are introduced.
- correlate vegetative
communities and animal life and discuss the factors that limit the activities
of either plant or animal.
- describe the cave
and list the limiting factors to its development. Discuss how human
impacts can affect the cave.
- discuss predator/prey
relationships.
These objectives
will be achieved in three stages:
- Nametags, pre-visit
activities and information - teacher(s) will complete Nametag Activity
and select at least one Pre-visit Activity to do in the classroom before
visiting Wind Cave National Park. Selection of activities will be communicated
to the ranger leading park program.
- Park activities
- ranger directed with assistance and supervision of the teacher and/or
teacher aide.
- Post-visit activities
- teacher(s) will select at least one Post-visit Activity to do in the
classroom after visiting Wind Cave National Park.
Pre-Visit
Preparations:
Nametags
- Who Am I?
Carrying
Capacity
Birds
of Prey
Post-Visit
Activities:
Life
on the Edge
How
Much is Enough
Murder
Ewe Wrote
Vocabulary
List
Student
Pages
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