Chapter 112, Subchapter B: Middle School
| Reference | Science Concepts | The Digital Field Trip
Series
| The Digital Frog 2.5 | Science Matrix | |||
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Wetlands | Rainforest | Desert | |||||
| Section: | The student is expected to: | ||||||
(a) Introduction. |
4. (E) Organisms and environments. In studies of living systems, students explore the interdependence between these systems. Interactions between organisms in ecosystems, including producer/consumer, predator/prey, and parasite/host relationships, are investigated in aquatic and terrestrial systems. Students describe how biotic and abiotic factors affect the number of organisms and populations present in an ecosystem. In addition, students explore how organisms and their populations respond to short- and long-term environmental changes, including those caused by human activities. |
Study section; Endangered Wetlands section |
Study section; Endangered Rainforests section |
Desert Study section; Human Impact section |
Ecology section; Anatomy section |
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(b) Knowledge and skills. |
11. (A) describe producer/consumer, predator/prey, and parasite/host relationships as they occur in food webs within marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems; |
Food Web screens |
Dependency Web screens |
Refer to Build-A- Desert |
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11. (B) investigate how organisms and populations in an ecosystem depend on and may compete for biotic and abiotic factors such as quantity of light, water, range of temperatures, or soil composition; |
Refer to Food Web |
Refer to Dependency Web |
Refer to Build-A- Desert |
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11. (C) explore how short- and long-term environmental changes affect organisms and traits in subsequent populations; and |
Refer to Adaptations |
Biodiversity screens |
What is an adaptation |
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