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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.LE6: Plants and animals depend on each other and their physical environment.
Academic Level - MST4.E.LE6:
Performance Indicator - MST4.E.LE6A: Students describe how plants and animals, including humans, depend upon each other and the nonliving environment.
Major Understandings - 6.1a : Green plants are producers because they provide the basic food supply for themselves and animals.
Major Understandings - 6.1b : All animals depend on plants. Some animals (predators) eat other animals (prey).
Major Understandings - 6.1c : Animals that eat plants for food may in turn become food for other animals. This sequence is called a food chain.
Major Understandings - 6.1d : Decomposers are living things that play a vital role in recycling nutrients.
Major Understandings - 6.1e : An organism’s pattern of behavior is related to the nature of that organism’s environment, including the kinds and numbers of other organisms present, the availability of food and other resources, and the physical characteristics of the environment.
Major Understandings - 6.1f : When the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce, and others die or move to new locations.