Science Standard V, Life Science
Lesson 530, Ecosystems
Defining environment, population, community, ecosystem, climate, and biome
Recognizing that water, heat, light, soil, and air are the elements of an organism’s nonliving environment
Identifying characteristics of the tundra, the coniferous forest, the temperate deciduous forest, the grassland, the desert, and the rain forest
Knowing what permafrost is
Understanding the marine biome
Understanding aquatic biomes
Understanding the unique bonding and characteristics of water that make it essential for living systems: dissolving substances, interacting with other substances, moderating the effects of temperature change
Defining biosphere
Describing, comparing, and contrasting the dynamic interactions between divisions of biosphere: the physical environment, plant and algae life, animal life, and bacteria and fungi life