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Grade Level Standards 3rd Grade 3-2.2, 3-2.3, 3-2.4, 3-2.5 4th Grade 4-2.1, 4-2.5, 4-3.3 5th Grade 5-2.4, 5-2.5 Explain how physical and behavioral adaptations allow organisms to survive (including hibernation, defense, locomotion, movement, food obtainment, and camouflage for animals and seed dispersal, color, and response to light for plants). Explain how changes in the habitats of plants and animals affect their survival. Summarize the organization of simple food chains (including the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers). Classify organisms into major groups (including plants or animals, flowering or nonflowering plants, and vertebrates [fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals] or invertebrates) according to their physical characteristics Explain how an organism’s patterns of behavior are related to its environment (including the kinds and the number of other organisms present, the availability of food and other resources, and the physical characteristics of the environment). Explain how the Sun affects Earth. Identify the roles of organisms as they interact and depend on one another through food chains and food webs in an ecosystem, considering producers and consumers (herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores), decomposers (microorganisms, termites, worms, and fungi), predators and prey, and parasites and hosts. Explain how limiting factors (including food, water, space, and shelter) affect populations in ecosystems. |
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