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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Also Assesses - Clarification :
Students will describe or explain how energy is transferred from the Sun through a food chain.
Students will explain that plants make their own food using carbon dioxide, water, and energy from the Sun.
Students will explain that animals obtain energy from the plants and/or animals they eat. - Content Limits :
Items assessing the flow of energy from the Sun through a food chain are limited to the direction of energy flow. Items will not address or assess the amounts of energy flowing through the food chain or the efficiency of the energy transfers.
Items will not address or assess cellular respiration or any other cellular process.
Items will not address or assess decomposers.
Items will not address or assess food webs, trophic levels, or energy pyramids.
Items will not assess more than five components (links) in a food chain. - Stimulus Attributes :
Scenarios addressing food chains may, but are not required to, include the Sun.
Scenarios referring to consumers may use the terms carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore. - Response Attributes :
None specified - Prior Knowledge :
Items may require the student to apply science knowledge described in the NGSSS from lower grades. This benchmark requires prerequisite knowledge from SC.1.L.17.1.
SC.3.L.17.2 Recognize that plants use energy from the Sun, air, and water to make their own food.
SC.4.L.17.2 Explain that animals, including humans, cannot make their own food and that when animals eat plants or other animals, the energy stored in the food source is passed to them.
- Test Item #: Sample Item 1
- Question: The Sun provides the energy to be used by the living things in the lagoon food chain shown below.
which of the following describes the transfer of energy from a producer to a consumer?
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
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