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Subject Area - 4:
Environment and Ecology
  • Standard Area - 4.3: Natural Resources
  • Grade Level - 4.3.12: GRADE 12
Standard - 4.3.12.A

Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using renewable and nonrenewable resources. 

  • Explain how consumption rate affects the sustainability of resource use.
  • Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using renewable resources such as solar power, wind power, and biofuels.

  • Assessment Anchor - BIO.B.4

    Ecology

    • Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.4.1

      Describe ecological levels of organization in the biosphere.

      • 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.
    • Anchor Descriptor - BIO.B.4.2

      Describe interactions and relationships in an ecosystem.

      • 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.
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