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National Science Education Standards
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Inquiry
  • Use data to conduct a reasonable explanation.
  • Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence.

Life Science

  • Organisms have basic needs. They can survive only in environments in which their needs can be met.
  • Each plant or animal has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, reproduction.
  • The behavior of individual organisms is influenced by internal cues (such as hunger) and by external cues (such as a change in the environment).
  • All animals depend on plants. Some animals eat plants for food. Others eat animals that eat plants.
  • An organism's behavior patterns are related to the nature of that organism's environment, including . . . the availability of food and resources.