Syllabus content and objectives
Official JAMB Biology outline · C: Ecology
Content
Population density and overcrowding; rapid changes in human population; density calculated as the number of organisms per unit area.
Objective
Determine reasons for rapid changes in human population and the consequences of overcrowding; calculate population density as the number of organisms per unit area.
Content
Adaptations for survival; factors causing competition; intraspecific and interspecific competition; niche differentiation; relationships between competition and succession.
Objective
Relate population increases, disease, food shortages and lack of space to intraspecific and interspecific competition; determine how niche differentiation reduces intraspecific competition; relate competition to succession.
Content
Factors affecting population size: biotic factors, including food, pests, disease, predation, competition and reproductive ability; abiotic factors, including temperature, space, light, rainfall, topography, pressure and pH.
Objective
Deduce the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on population size; determine interactions between biotic and abiotic factors, such as drought or water scarcity causing food shortages and lack of space increasing disease rates.
Content
Ecological succession: primary and secondary succession; sequence of succession leading to a stable climax community.
Objective
Trace the sequence of ecological succession to the climax stage of stability in plant populations.
Opens the CBT engine with Biology past questions and answers.