6Sci+Goal7


 * Competency Goal 7:**
 * The learner will conduct investigations and use technologies and information systems to build an understanding of population dynamics.**


 * Objectives**
 * 7.01** Describe ways in which organisms interact with each other and with non-living parts of the environment:
 * Coexistence/Cooperation/Competition.
 * Symbiosis.
 * Mutual dependence.
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 * 7.02** Investigate factors that determine the growth and survival of organisms including:
 * Light.
 * Temperature range.
 * Mineral availability.
 * Soil/rock type.
 * Water.
 * Energy.
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 * 7.03** Explain how changes in habitat may affect organisms.
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 * 7.04** Evaluate data related to human population growth, along with problems and solutions:
 * Waste disposal.
 * Food supplies.
 * Resource availability.
 * Transportation.
 * Socio-economic patterns.
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 * 7.05** Examine evidence that overpopulation by any species impacts the environment.
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 * 7.06** Investigate processes which, operating over long periods of time, have resulted in the diversity of plant and animal life present today:
 * Natural selection.
 * Adaptation.
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