Curriculum Map: Science Grade 8 Page 1 of 2 pages

Content Strand: 8.7 Demonstrate the Dependency of Living Components in the Ecosystem on the Nonliving Components
Content Strand: 8.8 Explain Energy Flow Through a Food Chain, Web and Pyramid
Content Strand: 8.9 Explain the Importance of the Predator/Prey Relationship and How It Maintains the Balances Within
Ecosystems
Content Strand: 8.10 Understand Limiting Factors and Predict Their Effects on an Organism
Content Strand: 8.11 Identify Niches for Producers, Consumers and Decomposers Within an Ecosystem
Content Strand: 8.12 Compare and Contrast the Major Ecosystems of Pennsylvania
Content Strand: 8.13 Identify the Major Characteristics of a Biome
Content Strand: 8.14 Compare and Contrast Different Biomes and Their Characteristics
Content Strand: 8.15 Identify the Relationship of Abiotic and Biotic Components and Explain Their Interaction in an Ecosystem
Content Strand: 8.16 Explain How Different Soil Types Determine the Characteristics of Ecosystems
Content Strand: 8.17 Explain the Concepts of Cycles
Content Strand: 8.18 Identify and Explain Cycles Within an Ecosystem
Content Strand: 8.19 Analyze the Role of Different Cycles Within an Ecosystem
Content Strand: 8.20 Explain How Ecosystems Change Over Time
Content Strand: 8.21 Identify the Succession Stages of a Given Ecosystem
Content Strand: 8.22 Explain How Specific Organisms May Change an Ecosystem
Content Strand: 8.23 Explain a Change in an Ecosystem That Relates to Humans
Strand: 9.0 Ecology Adaptations
Content Strand: 9.1 Describe Diversity of Plants and Animals in Ecosystems
Content Strand: 9.2 Select an Ecosystem and Describe Different Plants and Animals That Life There
Content Strand: 9.3 Identify Adaptations in Plants and Animals
Content Strand: 9.4 Recognize That Adaptations are Developed Over Long Periods of time and are Passed on From One
Generation to the Next
Content Strand: 9.5 Understand Levels of Ecosystem Organization (e.g., Individuals, Populations, Species)
Content Strand: 9.6 Explain How Species of Living Organisms Adapt to Their Environment
Content Strand: 9.7 Explain the Role of Individual Variations in Natural Selection
Content Strand: 9.8 Explain How an Adaptation is an Inherited Structure or Behavior That Helps an Organism Survive and
Reproduce
Content Strand: 9.9 Describe How a Particular Trait May be Selected Over Time and Account for a Species' Adaptations
Content Strand: 9.10 Compare and Contrast Animals and Plants That Have Very Specific Survival Requirements With Those That
Have More General Requirements for Survival
Content Strand: 9.11 Explain How One Species May Survive an Environmental Change While Another Might Not
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