Gizmos for Indiana - Science: Environmental Science (IN--Academic Standards adopted 2016)

This correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this state's curriculum standards. Click any Gizmo title below for more information.

Env.1: : Environmental Systems

Env.1.1: : Understand and explain that ecosystems have cyclic fluctuations, such as seasonal changes or changes in population, as a result of migration, birth, and mortality.

Env.1.2: : Understand and explain that human beings are part of Earth’s ecosystems and give examples of how human activities can, deliberately or inadvertently, alter ecosystems.

Env.1.3: : Recognize and describe the difference between systems in equilibrium and systems in disequilibrium. Describe how steady state is achieved through negative and positive feedback loops.

Env.1.4: : Diagram the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and water and describe the human impacts on each.

Env.2: : Flow of Matter and Energy

Env.2.2: : Identify the different forms of energy and understand that energy may be converted from one form to another, but cannot be created or destroyed.

Env.2.3: : Recognize and explain that the amount of life any environment can support is limited by the available energy, water, oxygen, nutrients and minerals, and by the ability of ecosystems to recycle organic materials from the remains of dead organisms.

Env.3: : Natural Disasters

Env.3.1: : Identify and describe geomorphic processes controlled by tectonics (i.e. volcanic activity, uplift, and shaping of landforms).

Env.3.3: : Read and describe a weather map in terms of pressure systems, fronts, and changing weather patterns.

Env.3.4: : Identify natural Earth hazards, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, and identify the regions in which they occur as well as the short-term and long-term effects on the environment and on people.

Env.5: : Biodiversity

Env.5.2: : Explain how the great diversity of species increases the chance that at least some living organisms will survive in the event of major global changes.

Env.5.5: : Identify the indirect and direct threats to biodiversity (e.g. habitat loss and destruction, invasion by exotic species, commercial over fishing and hunting, pollution, climate change, and bioaccumulation and biomagnification of toxins).

Env.5.6: : Identify and explain the three levels of biodiversity: genetic, species, and ecosystem.

Env.6: : Population

Env.6.4: : Explain how the carrying capacity of an ecosystem may change as availability of resources changes.

Env.7: : Pollution

Env.7.3: : Identify evidence, consequences, and prevention for climate change produced by anthropogenic sources.

Env.7.5: : Compare and contrast the effects of environmental stressors (i.e. herbicides, pesticides) on plants and animals. Give examples of secondary effects on other environmental components.

Env.8: : Natural and Anthropogenic Resource Cycles

Env.8.3: : Recognize and explain that in evolutionary change, the present arises from the materials of the past and in ways that can be explained, such as the formation of soil from rocks and dead organic matter.

Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020

Indiana - Science: Environmental Science

IN--Academic Standards | Adopted: 2016