GROWING and FLOWING
6.L.1: Understand the structures, processes and behaviors of plants that enable them to survive and reproduce.
6.L.2: Understand the flow of energy through ecosystems and the responses of populations to the biotic and abiotic factors in their environment.
6.L.2: Understand the flow of energy through ecosystems and the responses of populations to the biotic and abiotic factors in their environment.
Essential Questions
How do plants reproduce?
What is the anatomy and physiology of a plant?
How do photosynthesis and cellular respiration complement each other?
How does matter and energy flow through an ecosystem?
How do plants respond to changes in their environment?
What are limiting factors?
How do plants reproduce?
What is the anatomy and physiology of a plant?
How do photosynthesis and cellular respiration complement each other?
How does matter and energy flow through an ecosystem?
How do plants respond to changes in their environment?
What are limiting factors?
Students, by the end of the unit, will know and understand that:
* Plants are made of many parts that serve different functions (know the parts and how plants reproduce) and their seed growth and development.
* The process of Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration and that the requirements for Photosynthesis are the products of Cellular respiration, and vice versa.
* Transpiration's structures and processes that allows plants to release water into the atmosphere.
* Energy flows through an ecosystem in one direction, from one organism to another and transferred between organisms, from producer to consumer.
* Matter flows through an ecosystem (carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, water).
* Changes in environmental conditions impact the survival of organisms.
* Physical conditions create a wide variety of environments. Examples of the variety of environments: freshwater, marine, forest, desert, grasslands, mountain, etc.
* Limiting factors can directly or indirectly impact organisms and/or species.
* Organisms have a tolerance to environmental conditions.
* Tropisms - Positive and Negative tropism of plants (thigmotropism, phototropism, and, geotropism/gravitropism).
* Plants are made of many parts that serve different functions (know the parts and how plants reproduce) and their seed growth and development.
* The process of Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration and that the requirements for Photosynthesis are the products of Cellular respiration, and vice versa.
* Transpiration's structures and processes that allows plants to release water into the atmosphere.
* Energy flows through an ecosystem in one direction, from one organism to another and transferred between organisms, from producer to consumer.
* Matter flows through an ecosystem (carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, water).
* Changes in environmental conditions impact the survival of organisms.
* Physical conditions create a wide variety of environments. Examples of the variety of environments: freshwater, marine, forest, desert, grasslands, mountain, etc.
* Limiting factors can directly or indirectly impact organisms and/or species.
* Organisms have a tolerance to environmental conditions.
* Tropisms - Positive and Negative tropism of plants (thigmotropism, phototropism, and, geotropism/gravitropism).