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Subject Area - 4:
Environment and Ecology
Environment and Ecology
- Standard Area - 4.1: Ecology
- Grade Level - 4.1.4: GRADE 4
Standard - 4.1.4.A
Explain how living things are dependent upon other living and nonliving things for survival.
- Explain what happens to an organism when its food supply, access to water, shelter or space (niche / habitat) is changed.
- Identify similarities and differences between living organisms, ranging from single-celled to multi-cellular organisms through the use of microscopes, video, and other media.
- Standard Area - 4.1: Ecology
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.A.1:
Basic Biological Principles
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Eligible Content - BIO.A.1.1.1 Describe the characteristics of life shared by all prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms.
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Eligible Content - BIO.A.1.2.1
Compare cellular structures and their functions in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
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Eligible Content - BIO.A.1.2.2 Describe and interpret relationships between structure and function at various levels of biological organization (i.e., organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, and multicellular organisms).
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.4:
Ecology
- Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.4:
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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.
