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Next Gen Science Standards: (click the topic to view the standards)
Ecosystems (all of LS-2)
  • ​Resource availability & populations
  • Population Dynamics
  • Cycling of Matter
  • Changes in ecosystems
  • Water purification
  • Social injustices/injustices to animals
Earth and Human Activities (only ES 3-4 ES 3-5)
  • Human population increases impact natural resource consumption on Earth
  • Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.

  • Abiotic - a nonliving factor in an environment
  • Biotic - the living organisms in a given community, including all plant and animal life within the community. 
  • Commensalism - a symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits while the other is not affected.
  • Competition - A relationship between organisms that strive for the same resources in the same place
  • Carnivores - eats meat​
  • Consumers​ - can not make their own food
  • Decomposers​ - break down dead plants and animals into component parts, including nutrients​
  • Ecosystem - a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. 
  • Food Chain​ - sequence of organisms in which each depends on the next, and the lower members are a source of food.
  • Food Web - interconnected food chains of producer, consumers, and apex predators
  • Grazers - Feed on living organisms without killing them
  • Herbivores - eat plants
  • Intraspecific Competition - competition which occurs between members of the same species
  • Interspecific Competition - Competition which occurs between members of different species. ​
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  • Omnivores​ - eats both plants and meat​
  • Mutualism - A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit
  • Parasitism - A symbiotic relationship in which one species (the parasite) benefits while the other species (the host) is harmed. ​​
  • Photosynthesis - using the energy in sunlight to make food
  • Predator​ - animals that eat a prey animal
  • Prey - animals that are hunted and eaten by a predator for food
  • Producers - living things that use energy to make food.​
  • Scavengers - eat organisms that are already dead
  • ​Symbiosis - a close relationship between two species in which at least one species benefits

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