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Use scientific knowledge and logic to understand and examine
environmental problems (I)
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Develop scientific approaches for studying the environment, including
the design of scientific research studies. (I)
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Collect and analyze samples as part of a scientific inquiry. (I)
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Write a technical report that describes questions, methodology,
results, and discussion of a scientific study of the environment. (I)
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Describe Earth's biodiversity and tell how the environment, working
through natural selection, produced it. (II)
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Describe the role of biotechnology in increasing ecosystem carrying
capacity for humans from scientific, economic, ethical, and moral
perspectives. (II)
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Identify different ways by which humans view their relationship with
the natural world. (II)
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Describe levels of organization and interactions within ecosystems.
(III)
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Describe populations and natural communities as units of structure and
function. (III)
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Describe the relationship of climate and elevation to biomes; their
structure, resiliency, and global importance. (III)
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Identify structure and function of atoms and molecules in organisms
and tell how they relate to food webs and nutrient cycling in
ecosystems. (III)
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Describe the concept of carrying capacity in a finite world. (IV)
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Describe patterns of population growth and their consequences to the
ecosystem and species. (IV)
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Identify human impacts on ecosystems and human policy on managing
natural resources. (IV)
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Identify types of pollution in the environment, their sources, and the
problems they cause from a community and species perspective. (IV)
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Describe the threats to global freshwater supplies and their
consequences on biomes and species. (IV)
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Describe the concept of global warming, its cause, and consequences on
biomes and species. (IV)
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