Middle School
Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
Use mathematical representations to support and revise explanations based on evidence about factors affecting biodiversity and populations in ecosystems of different scales.
Use mathematical and/or computational representations to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales.
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.