G R A D E   5

Subchapter 112.7

Reference	Science Concepts	Wetlands	Rainforest	Desert
5.5. A system is a collection of cycles, structures, and processes that interact.
(A)	Describe some cycles, structures and processes that are found in a simple system	Food Chains, Food Web, Photosynthesis, Nutrient Cycles	Rainforest Mechanisms,	Rocks and Minerals (rock cycle)
(B)	Describe some interactions that occur in a simple system	Food Chains, Food Web, Photosynthesis, Web Game	Dependency Types, Web Game	Build-a-Desert Game
5.6. Some change occurs in cycles.
(A)	Identify events and describe changes that occur on a regular basis such as daily, lunar, and seasonal changes.		Rainforest Mechanisms (seasonality, productivity, succession, soils & decompostion), Climate
(B)	Identify the significance of the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles	Nutrient Cycles	Water Cycle	Relate to Water Availability
(C)	Describe and compare life cycles of plants and animals	Organisms and Migration (life cycle)	Organisms (life cycle)	Organisms (life cycle)
5.9. Adaptations may increase the survival of members of a species.
(A)	Compare the adaptive characteristics of species that improve their ability to survive and reproduce in an ecosystem	Organisms, Migration Plant and Animal Adaptations	Organisms, Plant and Animal Characteristics	Adaptations, Organisms
(B)	Analyze and describe adaptive characteristics that result in an organism’s unique niche in an ecosystem	Organisms, Migration Plant and Animal Adaptations, Web Game	Organisms, Plant and Animal Characteristics, Niches, Web Game	Adaptations, Animal and Plant Adaptations
(C)	Predict some adaptive characteristics required for survival and reproduction by an organism in an ecosystem	Organisms, Migration Plant and Animal Adaptations, Web Game	Organisms, Plant and Animal Characteristics, New Species, How Species Change	Adaptations, Animal and Plant Adaptations
5.10. Likenesses between offspring and parent are inherited or learned.
(A)	Identify traits that are inherited from parent to offspring in plants and animals	Organisms, Migration Plant and Animal Adaptations	Organisms, Plant and Animal Characteristics, New Species, How Species Change	What is an Adaptation?, Animal and Plant Adaptations
(B)	Give examples of learned characteristics that result in the influence of the environment	Organisms, Migration Plant and Animal Adaptations	Organisms, Plant and Animal Characteristics, New Species, How Species Change	Adaptations, Animal and Plant Adaptations
5.11. Certain past events affect present and future events.
(A)	Identify and observe actions that require time for changes to be measurable, including growth, erosion, dissolving, weathering and flow	Wetlands Mechanisms, Succession and Formation	Rainforest Mechanisms	Desert Mechanisms, Landscape Formation, Weathering, Wind, Water