Biology Unit 3 Day 5

Learning Objective: Students will learn about population dynamics by doing a simulation to model cause and effect and will analyze their data in writing using technical vocabulary: adaptations, natural selection, fitness, carrying capacity, mutations, ecosystem. 


Questions:

1. What causes a population to reach carrying capacity? (book)
2. Why is the human population growing exponentially? (book or brain)
3. Why is it impossible for exponential growth to continue forever?

Answer choices for number 3:

	A. Organisms start to compete for resources. B. Mutations happen randomly in organisms. C. Most ecosystems have unlimited water supplies. D. A population has no genetic diversity.