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Subject Area - 4:
Environment and Ecology
Environment and Ecology
- Standard Area - 4.1: Ecology
- Grade Level - 4.1.12: GRADE 12
Standard - 4.1.12.A
Analyze the significance of biological diversity in an ecosystem.
- Explain how species adapt to limiting factors in an ecosystem.
- Analyze the differences between natural causes and human causes of extinction.
- Research wildlife management laws and their effects on biodiversity.
- Standard Area - 4.1: Ecology
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.4:
Ecology
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.1.1 Describe the levels of ecological organization (i.e., organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.1.2 Describe characteristic biotic and abiotic components of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.1 Describe how energy flows through an ecosystem (e.g., food chains, food webs, energy pyramids).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.2 Describe biotic interactions in an ecosystem (e.g., competition, predation, symbiosis).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.3 Describe how matter recycles through an ecosystem (i.e., water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle, nitrogen cycle).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.4 Describe how ecosystems change in response to natural and human disturbances (e.g., climate changes, introduction of nonnative species, pollution, fires).
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Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.5 Describe the effects of limiting factors on population dynamics and potential species extinction.
- Describe the impact of industrial, agricultural, and commercial enterprises on an ecosystem
Standard - 4.1.12.C
Research how humans affect energy flow within an ecosystem.
- Standard Area - 4.1: Ecology
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.4:
Ecology
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.1.1
Describe the levels of ecological organization (i.e., organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere).
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.1.2
Describe characteristic biotic and abiotic components of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.1
Describe how energy flows through an ecosystem (e.g., food chains, food webs, energy pyramids).
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.2
Describe biotic interactions in an ecosystem (e.g., competition, predation, symbiosis).
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.3
Describe how matter recycles through an ecosystem (i.e., water cycle, carbon cycle, oxygen cycle, nitrogen cycle).
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.4
Describe how ecosystems change in response to natural and human disturbances (e.g., climate changes, introduction of nonnative species, pollution, fires).
Eligible Content - BIO.B.4.2.5
Describe the effects of limiting factors on population dynamics and potential species extinction.
Standard - 4.1.12.D
Analyze the effects of new and emerging technologies on biodiversity in specific ecosystems.
- Evaluate the impact of laws and regulations on reducing the number of threatened and endangered species.
Standard - 4.1.12.F
- Examine the status of existing theories.
- Evaluate experimental information for relevance and adherence to science processes.
- Judge that conclusions are consistent and logical with experimental conditions.
- Interpret results of experimental research to predict new information, propose additional investigable questions, or advance a solution.
- Communicate and defend a scientific argument.
