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Objective 2 - LifeScience                                                     Expected Understandings
 

2.9A - Identify the external characteristics of different kinds of plants and animals that allow their needs to be met
2.9B - Compare and give examples of the ways living organisms depend on each other and on their environments
3.8A - Observe and describe the habitats of organisms within an ecosystem
3.8B - Reconize organisms with similar needs competing with others for resources such as oxygen, water, food, or space
3.8C - Describe environmental changes in which some organisms would thrive, become ill, or perish
3.8D - Living organisms modify their environment to meet their needs; beavers building a dam or humans building a home
4.6A - Identify patterns of change such as in weather, metamorphosis, and objects in the sky
5.5A - Describe some cycles, structures, and processes that are found in a simple system
5.5B - Describe some interactions that occur in a simple system
5.6C - Describe and compare life cycles of plants and animals
5.9A - Compare the adaptive characteristics of species that improve their ability to survive and reproduce in an ecosystem
5.9B - Analyze and describe adaptive characteristics that result in an organism's unique niche in an ecosystem
5.9C - Predict some adaptive characteristics required for survival and reproduction by an organism in an ecosystem
5.10A -Identify traits that are inherited from parent to offspring in plants and animals
5.10B -Give examples of learned characteristics that result from the influence of the environment