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Competency Goals:: 1: The learner will conduct investigations to build an understanding of the interdependence of plants and animals.
Objectives:
1.01: Describe and compare several common ecosystems (communities of organisms and their interaction with the environment).
1.02: Identify and analyze the functions of organisms within the population of the ecosystem:
Producers.
Consumers.
Decomposers. 1.03: Explain why an ecosystem can support a variety of organisms. 1.04: Discuss and determine the role of light, temperature, and soil composition in an ecosystem's capacity to support life. 1.05: Determine the interaction of organisms within an ecosystem. 1.06: Explain and evaluate some ways that humans affect ecosystems.
Habitat reduction due to development.
Pollutants.
Increased nutrients. 1.07: Determine how materials are recycled in nature.
Producers.
Consumers.
Decomposers. 1.03: Explain why an ecosystem can support a variety of organisms. 1.04: Discuss and determine the role of light, temperature, and soil composition in an ecosystem's capacity to support life. 1.05: Determine the interaction of organisms within an ecosystem. 1.06: Explain and evaluate some ways that humans affect ecosystems.
Habitat reduction due to development.
Pollutants.
Increased nutrients. 1.07: Determine how materials are recycled in nature.