California State Content Standards

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Science W.4.a: Students know waves carry energy from one place to another.

Science EC.6.a: Students know biodiversity is the sum total of different kinds of organisms and is affected by alterations of habitats.

Science EC.6.b: Students know how to analyze changes in an ecosystem resulting from changes in climate, human activity, introduction of nonnative species, or changes in population size.

Science EC.6.c: Students know how fluctuations in population size in an ecosystem are determined by the relative rates of birth, immigration, emigration, and death.

Science EC.6.d: Students know how water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle between abiotic resources and organic matter in the ecosystem and how oxygen cycles through photosynthesis and respiration.

Science EC.6.e: Students know a vital part of an ecosystem is the stability of its producers and decomposers.

Science EC.6.f: Students know at each link in a food web some energy is stored in newly made structures but much energy is dissipated into the environment as heat. This dissipation may be represented in an energy pyramid.

Science EC.6.g: Students know how to distinguish between the accommodation of an individual organism to its environment and the gradual adaptation of a lineage of organisms through genetic change.

Science BG.7.a: Students know the carbon cycle of photosynthesis and respiration and the nitrogen cycle.

Science BG.7.b: Students know the global carbon cycle: the different physical and chemical forms of carbon in the atmosphere, oceans, biomass, fossil fuels, and the movement of carbon among these reservoirs.

Science BG.7.c: Students know the movement of matter among reservoirs is driven by Earth's internal and external sources of energy.

Science AT.8.a: Students know the thermal structure and chemical composition of the atmosphere.

Science AT.8.b: Students know how the composition of Earth's atmosphere has evolved over geologic time and know the effect of outgassing, the variations of carbon dioxide concentration, and the origin of atmospheric oxygen.

Science AT.8.c: Students know the location of the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, its role in absorbing ultraviolet radiation, and the way in which this layer varies both naturally and in response to human activities.

Science CAG.9.a: Students know the resources of major economic importance in California and their relation to California's geology.

Science CAG.9.b: Students know the principal natural hazards in different California regions and the geologic basis of those hazards.

Science CAG.9.c: Students know the importance of water to society, the origins of California's fresh water, and the relationship between supply and need.

Science CAG.9.d: Students know how to analyze published geologic hazard maps of California and know how to use the map's information to identify evidence of geologic events of the past and predict geologic changes in the future.

Science I.1.a: Select and use appropriate tools and technology (such as computer-linked probes, spreadsheets, and graphing calculators) to perform tests, collect data, analyze relationships, and display data.

Science I.1.d: Formulate explanations by using logic and evidence.

Science I.1.f: Distinguish between hypothesis and theory as scientific terms.

Science I.1.h: Read and interpret topographic and geologic maps.

Science I.1.k: Recognize the cumulative nature of scientific evidence.

Science I.1.l: Analyze situations and solve problems that require combining and applying concepts from more than one area of science.

Science I.1.m: Investigate a science-based societal issue by researching the literature, analyzing data, and communicating the findings. Examples of issues include irradiation of food, cloning of animals by somatic cell nuclear transfer, choice of energy sources, and land and water use decisions in California.