RiverQuest Beaver/Ohio
School Programs: PA Academic Standards
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS
3.5 Earth Science
3.5.4
D. Recognize the earth's different water resources.
3.5.7
D. Explain the behavior and impact of the earth's water systems.
3.5.10
D. Assess the value of water as a resource.
3.6 Technology Education
3.6.7
A. Explain biotechnologies that relate to the related technologies of propagating, growing, maintaining, adapting, treating, and converting.
3.7 Technological Devices
3.7.7
A. Describe the safe and appropriate use of tools, materials and techniques to answer questions and solve problems.
B. Use appropriate instruments and apparatus to study materials.
3.8 Science, Technology, and Human Endeavors
3.8.10
C. Evaluate possibilities, consequenses, and impacts of scientific and technological solutions.
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY STANDARDS
4.1 Watersheds and Wetlands
4.1.4
A. Identify various types of water environments.
B. Explain the differences between moving and still water.
C. Identify living things found in water environments.
E. Recognize the impact of watersheds and wetlands on animals and plants.
4.1.7
A. Explain the role of the water cycle within a watershed.
B. Understand the role of a watershed.
C. Explain the effects of water on the life of organisms in a watershed.
E. Describe the impact of watersheds and wetlands on people.
4.1.10
A. Describe the changes that occur from a stream's origin to its outflow.
B. Explain the relationship among landforms, vegetation, and the amount and speed of water.
C. Describe the physical characteristics of a stream and determine the types of organisms found in aquatic environments.
E. Identify and describe natural and human events on watersheds and wetlands.
4.1.12
A. Categorize stream order in a watershed.
B. Explain the relationships that exist within watersheds in the United States.
C. Analyze the parameters of a watershed.
4.3 Environmental Health
4.3.4
A. Know that plants, animals, and humans are dependent on air and water.
B. Identify how human actions affect environmental health.
C. Understand that the elements of natural systems are interdependent.
4.3.7
A. Identify environmental health issues.
B. Describe how human actions affect the health of the environment.
C. Explain biological diversity.
4.3.10
A. Describe environmental health issues.
B. Explain how multiple variables determine the effects of pollution on environmental health, natural processes, and human practices.
C. Explain biological diversity as an indicator of a healthy environment.
4.3.12
A. Analyze the complexity of environmental health issues.
B. Analyze the local, regional and national impacts of environmental health.
C. Analyze the need for a healthy environment.
4.6 Ecosystems and ther Interactions
4.6.4
A. Understand that living things are dependent on nonliving things in the environment for survival.
B. Understand the concept of cycles.
C. Identify how ecosystems change over time.
4.6.7
A. Explain the flows of energy and matter from organism to organism within an ecosystem.
B. Explain the concept of cycles.
C. Explain how ecosystems change over time.
4.6.10
A. Explain the biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem and their interaction.
4.6.12
A. Analyze the interdependence of an ecosystem.
4.7 Threatened, Endangered, and Extinct Species
4.7.4
A. Identify differences in living things.
B. Know that adaptations are important for survival.
4.7.7
A. Describe diversity of plants and animals in ecosystems.
B. Explain how species of living organisms adapt to their environment.
C. Explain natural or human actions in relation to the loss of species.
4.7.10
A. Explain the significance of diversity in ecosystems.
B. Explain how structure, function, and behavior of plants and animals can affect their ability to survive.
4.8 Humans and the Environment
4.8.4
B. Know that environmental conditions influence where and how people live.
C. Explain how human activities may change the environment.
D. Know the importance of natural resources in daily life.
4.8.7
B. Explain how people use natural resources.
C. Explain how human activities may affect local, regional and national environments.
D. Explain the importance of maintaining the natural resources at the local, state, and national levels.
4.8.10
B. Analyze the relationship between the use of natural resources and sustaining our society.
C. Analyze how human activities may affect local, regional, and national environments.
4.8.12
B. Analyze technology's role on natural resource sustainability.
C. Analyze how pollution has changed in quality, variety, and toxicity as the United States has developed its industrial base.
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