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Standard - MST4: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
Key Idea Code - MST4.LE:
Key Idea - MST4.LE5: Organisms maintain a dynamic equilibrium that sustains life.
Academic Level - MST4.E.LE5:
Performance Indicator - MST4.E.LE5B: Students describe some survival behaviors of common living specimens.
Major Understandings - 5.2a : Plants respond to changes in their environment. For example, the leaves of some green plants change position as the direction of light changes; the parts of some plants undergo seasonal changes that enable the plant to grow; seeds germinate, and leaves form and grow.
Major Understandings - 5.2b : Animals respond to change in their environment, (e.g., perspiration, heart rate, breathing rate, eye blinking, shivering, and salivating).
Major Understandings - 5.2c : Senses can provide essential information (regarding danger, food, mates, etc.) to animals about their environment.
Major Understandings - 5.2d : Some animals, including humans, move from place to place to meet their needs.
Major Understandings - 5.2e : Particular animal characteristics are influenced by changing environmental conditions including: fat storage in winter, coat thickness in winter, camouflage, shedding of fur.
Major Understandings - 5.2f : Some animal behaviors are influenced by environmental conditions. These behaviors may include: nest building, hibernating, hunting, migrating, and communicating.
Major Understandings - 5.2g : The health, growth, and development of organisms are affected by environmental conditions such as the availability of food, air, water, space, shelter, heat, and sunlight.