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Subject Area - 4:
Environment and Ecology
Environment and Ecology
- Standard Area - 4.1: Ecology
- Grade Level - 4.1.10: GRADE 10
Standard - 4.1.10.C
Evaluate the efficiency of energy flow within a food web.
Describe how energy is converted from one form to another as it moves through a food web (photosynthetic, geothermal).
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Assessment Anchor - BIO.A.3
Bioenergetics
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.A.3.1
Identify and describe the cell structures involved in processing energy.
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Eligible Content - BIO.A.3.1.1 Describe the fundamental roles of plastids (e.g., chloroplasts) and mitochondria in energy transformations.
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.A.3.2
Identify and describe how energy is captured and transformed in organisms to drive their life processes.
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Eligible Content - BIO.A.3.2.1 Compare and contrast the basic transformation of energy during photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
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Eligible Content - BIO.A.3.2.2 Describe the role of ATP in biochemical reactions.
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Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.4
Ecology
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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.4.1
Describe ecological levels of organization in the biosphere.
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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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Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.4.2
Describe interactions and relationships in an ecosystem.
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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.
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