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Standard 6.0 Environmental Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and non-living) and analyze their impact from a local to a global perspective.
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Standard 6.0 Environmental Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and non-living) and analyze their impact from a local to a global perspective.
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Standard 6.0 Environmental Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and non-living) and analyze their impact from a local to a global perspective.
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A. Natural Resources and Human Needs
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A. Natural Resources and Human Needs
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A. Natural Resources and Human Needs
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1. Recognize and explain how renewable and nonrenewable natural resources are used by humans in Maryland to meet basic needs.
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1. Recognize and compare how different parts of the world have varying amounts and types of natural resources and how the use of those resources impacts environmental quality.
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a. Identify and compare Maryland's renewable resources and nonrenewable resources.
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a. Identify and describe natural resources as
- Land
- Fossil Fuels
- Forests
- Water
- Wind
- Minerals
- Wildlife
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b. Describe how humans use renewable natural resources, such as plants, soil, water, animals.
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b. Identify and describe the distribution of natural resources around the Earth
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c. Describe how humans use nonrenewable natural resources, such as oil, coal, natural gas, minerals, including metals
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c. Identify and describe how the natural change processes may be affected by human activities.
- Agriculture
- Beach Preservation
- Mining
- Development/construction
- Stream/river alteration
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d. Identify and describe problems associated with obtaining, using, and distributing natural resources.
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e. Identify possible solutions to problems associated with obtaining, using, and distributing natural resources.
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B. Environmental Issues
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B. Environmental Issues
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B. Environmental Issues
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1. Recognize and describe that people in Maryland depend on, change, and are affected by the environment.
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1. Recognize and explain that decisions influencing the use of natural resources may have benefits, drawbacks, unexpected consequences, and tradeoffs.
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1. Recognize and explain that human-caused changes have consequences for Maryland's environment as well as for other places and future times.
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a. Identify and describe that human activities in a community or region are affected by environmental factors
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a. Identify and describe personal and community behaviors that waste natural resources and/or cause environmental harm and those behaviors that maintain or improve the environment.
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a. Identify and describe a range of local issues that have an impact on people in other places.
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b. Identify and describe that individuals and groups assess and manage risk to the environment differently.
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b. Recognize and describe how environmental change in one part of the world can have consequences for other parts of the world.
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c. Identify and describe that ecosystems can be impacted by human activities.
- Protection of the Chesapeake Bay watershed
- Resource acquisition and use
- Land use decisions (agriculture, mining, and development)
- Recycling
- Use and disposal of toxic substances
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2. Recognize and describe that consequences may occur when Earth's natural resources are used.
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a. Explain how human activities may have positive consequences on the natural environment.
- Recycling centers
- Native plantings
- Good farming practice
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b. Explain how human activities may have a negative consequence on the natural environment.
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c. Identify and describe that an environmental issue affects individual people and groups of people differently.
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