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Subject Area - 4:
Environment and Ecology
Environment and Ecology
- Standard Area - 4.5: Humans and the Environment
- Grade Level - 4.5.7:
GRADE 7
Standard - 4.5.7.E
Describe how length and degree of exposure to pollutants may affect human health.
- Identify diseases/ conditions that have been associated with exposure to pollutants
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Assessment Anchor - S7.B.3 Ecological Behavior and Systems
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Anchor Descriptor - S7.B.3.1 Compare the biotic and abiotic factors of different ecosystems and explain relationships between and these factors.
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Eligible Content - S7.B.3.1.1 Describe relationships (e.g., predator/prey competition, symbiosis) between organisms in different ecosystems.
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Eligible Content - S7.B.3.1.2 Identify the major biomes (terrestrial and aquatic) and describe their characteristic biotic and abiotic factors.
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Anchor Descriptor - S7.B.3.2 Explain ways different variables may cause and/or influence changes in natural or humanmade systems
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Eligible Content - S7.B.3.2.1 Identify and describe factors that cause and/or influence changes in populations (e.g., deforestation, disease, land use, natural disaster, invasive species).
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Eligible Content - S7.B.3.2.2 Explain how diversity affects the integrity of natural ecological systems.
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Eligible Content - S7.B.3.2.3 Describe how human interactions with the environment impact an ecosystem (e.g., road construction, pollution, urban development, dam building/removal).
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Eligible Content - S7.B.3.2.4 Explain how changes in environmental conditions can affect the survival of a population and entire species (e.g., climate, hibernation, migration, coloration).
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Anchor Descriptor - S7.B.3.3 Explain how renewable and nonrenewable resources provide for human needs and how these needs impact the environment.
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Eligible Content - S7.B.3.3.1 Explain how renewable and/or nonrenewable resources provide for human needs (i.e., energy, food, water, clothing, and shelter).
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Eligible Content - S7.B.3.3.2 Explain how the use of renewable and/or nonrenewable resources affects the environment.
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