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HS-LS2-2
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HS-LS2-2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, & Dynamics
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Students who demonstrate understanding can: Use mathematical representations to support and revise explanations based on evidence about factors affecting biodiversity and populations in ecosystems of different scales. |
Clarification Statement: Examples of mathematical representations include finding the average, determining trends, and using graphical comparisons of multiple sets of data.
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Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to provided data.
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Crosscutting Concepts
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Science & Engineering Practices
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Disciplinary Core Ideas
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Scale, Proportion, and Quantity:
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Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking:
- Mathematical and computational thinking at the 9â12 level builds on Kâ8 and progresses to using algebraic thinking and analysis, a range of linear and nonlinear functions including trigonometric functions, exponentials and logarithms, and computational tools for statistical analysis to analyze, represent, and model data. Simple computational simulations are created and used based on mathematical models of basic assumptions.
- Use mathematical representations of phenomena or design solutions to support and revise explanations.
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Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems:
- Ecosystems have carrying capacities, which are limits to the numbers of organisms and populations they can support. These limits result from such factors as the availability of living and nonliving resources and from such challenges such as predation, competition, and disease.
- Organisms would have the capacity to produce populations of great size were it not for the fact that environments and resources are finite. This fundamental tension affects the abundance (number of individuals) of species in any given ecosystem.
Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience:
- A complex set of interactions within an ecosystem can keep its numbers and types of organisms relatively constant over long periods of time under stable conditions.
- If a modest biological or physical disturbance to an ecosystem occurs, it may return to its more or less original status (i.e., the ecosystem is resilient), as opposed to becoming a very different ecosystem.
- Extreme fluctuations in conditions or the size of any population, however, can challenge the functioning of ecosystems in terms of resources and habitat availability.
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Introduction to the OKSci Framework
Return to Biology Introduction
Return to Ecosystem Dynamics
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