environmental sciences

1. MODULE 1
TOPIC
ECOLOGY

2. Course outcomes
• Understand About environment and its
components and Problems associated with
natural resources and their sustainable use.

3. Learning outcomes
• At the end of this section students can be able to:
• Present an overview of diversity of life forms in an ecosystem.
• Identify a number of habitats from the selected ecosystem.
• State one adaptation by one organism in the selected
ecosystem.
• Explain and identify the role of the organism in energy
transfers.
• Draw a food chain of the study area.
• Draw a food web of the study area.
• Draw a food pyramid of the study area.
• Identify local ecological issues related to selected organisms

4. Contents
• Introduction to ecology
• What is ecology
• Levels of organization
• The environment
• Basic concepts of ecology
• Food chain
• Food webs

34. Reference
• https://www.slideshare.net/isacbiswas/ecology-
1843340
• https://www.slideshare.net/jayanshugundaniya9/ecolo
gy-and-ecosystem-41045015
• https://www.slideshare.net/gauravhtandon1/ecology-
ecosystems-45788286
• https://www.slideshare.net/farrellw/ecology-notes-ppt
• https://www.slideshare.net/raymondbaldonado35/intr
oduction-to-ecology-67534612
• https://www.slideshare.net/sacklax40/introduction-to-
ecology-presentation?from_action=save

35. Youtube videos
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izRvPaA
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ubvEJ3
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36. Important questions