A. Plants and animals, including humans, interact with and depend upon each other and their environment to satisfy their basic needs.
B. Both human activities and natural events can have major impacts on the environment.
C. Energy flows from the sun through producers to consumers.
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Explore some facts about climate change and how it impacts our world in this interactive tutorial.
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Explore the seasons and how plants and animals adapt to the changing environment in this interactive tutorial.
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Explore food chains found in many Florida ecosystems as you complete this interactive tutorial.
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Explore some non-native animals in Florida including the honeybee, Cuban tree frog, and lionfish in this interactive tutorial.
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Explore some native animals of Florida including the Florida panther, gopher tortoise, and American alligator in this interactive tutorial.
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Explore non-native plants of Florida, including orange trees, sugarcane, and Brazilian Peppertree in this interactive tutorial.
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Explore some native plants of Florida including bald cypress, longleaf pine and prickly pear in this interactive tutorial.
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Explore energy flow in the environment through food chains as you complete this interactive tutorial.
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Explore the path energy takes from the Sun to producers to consumers.
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This resource provides information on some of Florida's non-native invasive fauna. The resource includes a list, description, and prevention guide for non-native invasive plant species in Florida.
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The beaver is often referred to as nature's own engineer. This video segment focuses on the beaver's ability to transform its environment to suit itself. The beaver does so with an innate ability to construct dams -- a feat no creature, save humans, is able to achieve.
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This lesson is designed for students to investigate familiar and unfamiliar ecosystems using Internet resources, to explore how various organisms satisfy their needs within their environments, and to study the kinds of relationships that exist between organisms within an environment.
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In this activity, the students will learn how animals are interconnected with the arctic ecosystem and how humans impact these interrelationships.
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In this activity, the students will design a protected environment for an endangered animal that encourages the animal's natural behaviors and meets its physical requirements. Students will explain to their classmates why the protected environment is essential for the endangered animal.
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Florida Division of Forestry – This website provides identifications, descriptions, and biological classifications of Florida trees. The website is presented in field-guide format, providing sketches of elements such as the leaves, fruit, and flowers. Also, the trees included are grouped alphabetically.
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This resource provides information on some of Florida's non-native invasive fauna. The resource includes a list, description, and prevention guide for non-native invasive plant species in Florida.
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