ECOSYSTEMS:
LS.5.2 Understand the interdependence of plants and animals within their ecosystem.
LS.5.2.1 Engage in argument from evidence to compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems (including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, rivers and streams, forests, and grasslands) in terms of their ability to support a variety of populations.
LS.5.2.2 Use models to classify organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers.
LS.5.2.3 Use models to infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationships of plants and animals to their ecosystem.