Ecology

Understand how organisms interact with each other and their environment, forming the basis of ecological study.

Explore the structure of ecosystems and learn about major terrestrial and aquatic biomes around the world.

Understand how ecosystems recover and develop over time through primary and secondary succession.

Learn how energy, biomass, and number pyramids represent the structure of ecosystems.

Study how energy and nutrients move through ecosystems via linear and interconnected feeding relationships.

Understand how carbon moves through living organisms, the atmosphere, and Earth’s systems.

Learn how nitrogen is converted and recycled by organisms and processes like fixation and denitrification.

Study how water circulates through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.

Explore how ozone forms and breaks down, and its role in protecting Earth from UV radiation.

Understand how phosphorus moves through rocks, soil, water, and living things without a gaseous phase.

Study how population size is influenced by birth, death, immigration, and environmental resistance.

Explore mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism — key interactions between species.

Examine how human activities affect ecosystems, biodiversity, and resource cycles.

Learn how sulfur and nitrogen compounds lead to acid deposition and affect ecosystems.

Understand the greenhouse effect and how rising global temperatures affect life on Earth.

Study of protecting biodiversity, ecosystems, and endangered species through science-based strategies.