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Subject Area - 3:
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
- Standard Area - 3.3: Earth and Space Sciences
- Organizing Category - 3.3.A: Earth Structure, Processes and Cycles
- Grade Level - 3.3.5.A:
GRADE 5
Standard - 3.3.5.A3
Explain how geological processes observed today such as erosion, movement of lithospheric plates, and changes in the composition of the atmosphere are similar to those in the past.
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Assessment Anchor - S5.B.3 Ecological Behavior and Systems
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Anchor Descriptor - S5.B.3.1 Describe the relationships between organisms in different ecosystems.
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Eligible Content - S5.B.3.1.1 Describe the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers within a local ecosystem.
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Eligible Content - S5.B.3.1.2 Describe the relationships between organisms in different food webs.
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Anchor Descriptor - S5.B.3.2 Explain how renewable and nonrenewable resources provide for human needs.
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Eligible Content - S5.B.3.2.1 Identify fossil fuels and alternative fuels used by humans.
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Eligible Content - S5.B.3.2.2 Describe the usefulness of Earth’s physical resources as raw materials for the human‐made world.
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Eligible Content - S5.B.3.2.3 Explain how different items are recycled and reused.
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Assessment Anchor - S5.C.1 Structure, Properties, and Interaction of Matter and Energy
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Anchor Descriptor - S5.C.1.1 Describe the observable physical properties of matter.
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Eligible Content - S5.C.1.1.1 Identify characteristic properties of matter that are independent of mass and volume.
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Eligible Content - S5.C.1.1.2 Differentiate between volume and mass.
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Anchor Descriptor - S5.C.1.2 Describe that matter can undergo chemical and physical changes.
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Eligible Content - S5.C.1.2.1 Describe how water changes from one state to another.
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Eligible Content - S5.C.1.2.2 Identify differences between chemical and physical changes of matter.
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Assessment Anchor - S5.D.1 Earth Features and Processes That Change Earth and Its Resources
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Anchor Descriptor - S5.D.1.1 Describe constructive and destructive natural processes that form different geologic structures and resources.
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Eligible Content - S5.D.1.1.1 Differentiate between abrupt changes in Earth’s surface (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, meteor impacts, landslides) and gradual changes in Earth’s surface (e.g., lifting up of mountains, wearing away by erosion).
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Eligible Content - S5.D.1.1.2 Explain how geological processes observed today (e.g., erosion, changes in the composition of the atmosphere, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes) are similar to those in the past.
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Anchor Descriptor - S5.D.1.2 Describe characteristic features of Earth’s water systems and their impact on resources.
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Eligible Content - S5.D.1.2.1 Identify physical, chemical, and biological factors that affect water quality.
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Eligible Content - S5.D.1.2.2 Describe the importance of wetlands in an ecosystem.
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Assessment Anchor - S5.D.2 Weather, Climate, and Atmospheric Processes
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Anchor Descriptor - S5.D.2.1 Differentiate between weather and climate.
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Eligible Content - S5.D.2.1.1 Explain how the cycling of water into and out of the atmosphere impacts climatic patterns.
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Eligible Content - S5.D.2.1.2 Explain the effects of oceans and lakes on climate.
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