Learning Domain: Earth History

Standard: Understand the history of Earth and its life forms based on evidence of change recorded in fossil records and landforms.

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Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes

Standard: Conclude that the good health of humans requires: Monitoring of the hydrosphere; Water quality standards; Methods of water treatment; Maintaining safe water quality; Stewardship

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Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes

Standard: Explain the structure of the hydrosphere including: Water distribution on earth; Local river basin and water availability.

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Learning Domain: Ecosystems

Standard: Understand how organisms interact with and respond to the biotic and abiotic components of their environment.

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Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes

Standard: Predict the safety and potential potability of water supplies in North Carolina based on physical and biological factors, including: Temperature; Dissolved oxygen; pH; Nitrates and phosphates; Turbidity; Bio-indicators

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Learning Domain: Earth Systems, Structures & Processes

Standard: Summarize evidence that Earth's oceans are a reservoir of nutrients, minerals, dissolved gases, and life forms: Estuaries; Marine ecosystems; Upwelling; Behavior of gases in the marine environment; Deep ocean technology and understandings gained

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Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change

Standard: Classify matter as elements, compounds, or mixtures based on how the atoms are packed together in arrangements.

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Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change

Standard: Explain how the physical properties of elements and their reactivity have been used to produce the current model of the Periodic Table of elements.

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Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change

Standard: Compare physical changes such as size, shape and state to chemical changes that are the result of a chemical reaction to include changes in temperature, color, formation of a gas or precipitate.

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Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change

Standard: Explain how the idea of atoms and a balanced chemical equation support the law of conservation of mass.

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Learning Domain: Molecular Biology

Standard: Summarize how food provides the energy and the molecules required for building materials, growth and survival of all organisms (to include plants).

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Learning Domain: Molecular Biology

Standard: Explain the relationship among a healthy diet, exercise, and the general health of the body (emphasis on the relationship between respiration and digestion).

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Learning Domain: Evolution and Genetics

Standard: Summarize the use of evidence drawn from geology, fossils, and comparative anatomy to form the basis for biological classification systems and the theory of evolution.

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Learning Domain: Evolution and Genetics

Standard: Explain the relationship between genetic variation and an organism's ability to adapt to its environment.

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Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Explain the implications of the depletion of renewable and nonrenewable energy resources and the importance of conservation.

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Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Explain the environmental consequences of the various methods of obtaining, transforming and distributing energy.

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Learning Domain: Matter: Properties and Change

Standard: Understand the properties of matter and changes that occur when matter interacts in an open and closed container.

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Learning Domain: Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Standard: Explain the environmental implications associated with the various methods of obtaining, managing, and using energy resources.

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Learning Domain: Ecosystems

Standard: Summarize the relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers including the positive and negative consequences of such interactions including: Coexistence and cooperation; Competition (predator/prey); Parasitism; Mutualism

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Learning Domain: Ecosystems

Standard: Explain how the flow of energy within food webs is interconnected with the cycling of matter (including water, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen).

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Learning Domain: Ecosystems

Standard: Explain how factors such as food, water, shelter and space affect populations in an ecosystem.

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Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Understand the hazards caused by agents of diseases that effect living organisms.

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Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Summarize aspects of biotechnology including: Specific genetic information available; Careers; Economic benefits to North Carolina; Ethical issues; Implications for agriculture

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Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Understand how biotechnology is used to affect living organisms.

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Learning Domain: Molecular Biology

Standard: Understand the composition of various substances as it relates to their ability to serve as a source of energy and building materials for growth and repair of organisms.

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Learning Domain: Evolution and Genetics

Standard: Understand the evolution of organisms and landforms based on evidence, theories and processes that impact the Earth over time.

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Learning Domain: Earth History

Standard: Explain the use of fossils, ice cores, composition of sedimentary rocks, faults, and igneous rock formations found in rock layers as evidence of the history of the Earth and its changing life forms.

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Learning Domain: Earth History

Standard: Infer the age of Earth and relative age of rocks and fossils from index fossils and ordering of rock layers (relative dating and radioactive dating).

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Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Summarize the basic characteristics of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites relating to the spread, treatment and prevention of disease.

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Learning Domain: Structures & Functions of Living Organisms

Standard: Explain the difference between epidemic and pandemic as it relates to the spread, treatment and prevention of disease.

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