Science

From Molecules to Organisms

LS.4.1 Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations, and behaviors that enable organisms to survive in changing habitats.

LS.4.1.1 Use models to explain that plants and animals have external structures that function to support survival.

LS.4.1.2 Use models to explain that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information, and respond to the information in different ways.

LS.4.1.3 Engage in argument from evidence to explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes gives individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats.

Crosscutting Concepts: Structure and Function, Systems and System Models, & Cause and Effect 

Vocabulary

Content Terminology:

• structures

• function

• survival

• growth

• external

• adaptation/adapted

• predators

• surroundings

• natural environment

• senses

• information transfer

• information (smell/odor, temperature, etc.)

• processing (perception/memories)

• response (behaviors/actions)

• systems

• characteristics

• variation

• species

• Survival

• reproduction/reproduce

• adaptation

• hibernation

• migration

• adaptation

• camouflage

• habitat

• survival

• instinct