Competency Goal 7: The learner will conduct investigations and use technologies and information systems to build an understanding of population dynamics.

Objectives

7.01 Describe ways in which organisms interact with each other and with non-living parts of the environment:

• Coexistence/Cooperation/Competition.
• Symbiosis.
• Mutual dependence.

7.02 Investigate factors that determine the growth and survival of organisms including:

• Light.
• Temperature range.
• Mineral availability.
• Soil/rock type.
• Water.
• Energy.

7.03 Explain how changes in habitat may affect organisms.

7.04 Evaluate data related to human population growth, along with problems and solutions:

• Waste disposal.
• Food supplies.
• Resource availability.
• Transportation.
• Socio-economic patterns.

7.05 Examine evidence that overpopulation by any species impacts the environment.

7.06 Investigate processes which, operating over long periods of time, have resulted in the diversity of plant and animal life present today:

• Natural selection.
• Adaptation.