SC5-14LW – analyses interactions between components and processes with biological systems.
Content
LW2: Conserving and maintaining the quality and sustainability of the environment requires scientific understanding of interactions within, the cycling of matter and the flow of energy through ecosystems.
Students:
· recall that ecosystems consist of communities of interdependent organisms and abiotic components of the environment.
· describe how energy flows through ecosystems, including input and output through food webs.
· evaluate some examples in ecosystems, of strategies used to balance conserving, protecting and maintaining the quality and sustainability of the environment with human activities and needs.