MS. Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems

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Develop a model to describe phenomena. (MS-LS2-3)MS.ME.SEP.1a

Develop a model to describe unobservable mechanisms. (MS-LS1-7)MS.ME.SEP.1b

Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for phenomena. (MS-LS2-1)MS.ME.SEP.2a

Construct a scientific explanation based on valid and reliable evidence obtained from sources (including the students’ own experiments) and the assumption that theories and laws that describe the natural world operate today as they did in the past and will continue to do so in the future. (MS-LS1-6)MS.ME.SEP.3a

Construct an oral and written argument supported by empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support or refute an explanation or a model for a phenomenon or a solution to a problem. (MS-LS2-4)MS.ME.SEP.4a

Science knowledge is based upon logical connections between evidence and explanations. (MS-LS1-6)MS.ME.SEP.5a

Science disciplines share common rules of obtaining and evaluating empirical evidence. (MS-LS2-4)MS.ME.SEP.5b

Plants, algae (including phytoplankton), and many microorganisms use the energy from light to make sugars (food) from carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and water through the process of photosynthesis, which also releases oxygen. These sugars can be used immediately or stored for growth or later use. (MS-LS1-6)MS.ME.DCI.LS1.C.1

Within individual organisms, food moves through a series of chemical reactions in which it is broken down and rearranged to form new molecules, to support growth, or to release energy. (MS-LS1-7)MS.ME.DCI.LS1.C.2

Organisms, and populations of organisms, are dependent on their environmental interactions both with other living things and with nonliving factors. (MS-LS2-1)MS.ME.DCI.LS2.A.1

In any ecosystem, organisms and populations with similar requirements for food, water, oxygen, or other resources may compete with each other for limited resources, access to which consequently constrains their growth and reproduction. (MSLS2- 1)MS.ME.DCI.LS2.A.2

Growth of organisms and population increases are limited by access to resources. (MS-LS2-1)MS.ME.DCI.LS2.A.3

Food webs are models that demonstrate how matter and energy is transferred between producers, consumers, and decomposers as the three groups interact within an ecosystem. Transfers of matter into and out of the physical environment occur at every level. Decomposers recycle nutrients from dead plant or animal matter back to the soil in terrestrial environments or to the water in aquatic environments. The atoms that make up the organisms in an ecosystem are cycled repeatedly between the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem. (MS-LS2-3)MS.ME.DCI.LS2.B.1

Ecosystems are dynamic in nature; their characteristics can vary over time. Disruptions to any physical or biological component of an ecosystem can lead to shifts in all its populations. (MS-LS2-4)MS.ME.DCI.LS2.C.1

The chemical reaction by which plants produce complex food molecules (sugars) requires an energy input (i.e., from sunlight) to occur. In this reaction, carbon dioxide and water combine to form carbon-based organic molecules and release oxygen. (secondary to MS-LS1-6)MS.ME.DCI.PS3.D.1

Cellular respiration in plants and animals involves chemical reactions with oxygen that release stored energy. In these processes, complex molecules containing carbon react with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide and other materials. (secondary to MS-LS1-7)MS.ME.DCI.PS3.D.2

Cause and effect relationships may be used to predict phenomena in natural or designed systems. (MS-LS2-1)MS.ME.CC.1a

Matter is conserved because atoms are conserved in physical and chemical processes. (MSLS1-7)MS.ME.CC.2a

Within a natural system, the transfer of energy drives the motion and/or cycling of matter. (MSLS1-6)MS.ME.CC.2b

The transfer of energy can be tracked as energy flows through a natural system. (MS-LS2-3)MS.ME.CC.2c

Small changes in one part of a system might cause large changes in another part. (MS-LS2-4)MS.ME.CC.3a

Science assumes that objects and events in natural systems occur in consistent patterns that are understandable though measurement and observation. (MS-LS2-3)MS.ME.CC.4a