Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills

Grades 10-12 (Environmental Systems)

Subchapter 112.44

Reference Science Concepts The Digital Field Trip to The Wetlands The Digital Field Trip to The Rainforest The Digital Field Trip to The Desert
The student knows:
6. The sources and flow of energy through and environmental system.
(A) Summarize forms and sources of energy in an ecosystem Photosynthesis, Web Energy, Web Game, Dependency Types, Web Game Connect to: Build-a-Desert Game
(B) Explain the flow of energy in an ecosystem Photosynthesis, Food Chains, Producers, Consumers, Decomposers   Connect to: Build-a-Desert Game
(C) Investigate and explain the effects of energy transformation within an ecosystem Photosynthesis, Web Energy, Food Chains   Connect to: Build-a-Desert Game
(D) Investigate and identify energy interactions in an ecosystem Photosynthesis, Web Energy, Food Chains   Connect to: Build-a-Desert Game
8. Environments change.
(A) Analyze and describe the effects on environments of events such as fires, hurricanes, deforestation, mining, population growth, and municipal development Conservation, Pollution, Human Impact, Impact Screens Human Impact, Deforestation
(B) Explain how regional changes in the environment may have a global effect   Rainforest Mechanisms, Human Impact, Impact Screens Human Impact, Deforestation
(C) Describe how communities have restored an ecosystem Build-a-Pond    
(D) Examine and describe a habitat restoration or protection program Conservation, Pollution   Human Impact, Deforestation