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USI in Primary Sci Probe 21

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Description

Describing Soil

Performance Expectations

K-ESS3-1   Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.

5-LS2-1   Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

5-ESS2-1   Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

  • Wind and water can change the shape of the land.
  • Earth’s major systems are the geosphere (solid and molten rock, soil, and sediments), the hydrosphere (water and ice), the atmosphere (air), and the biosphere (living things, including humans). These systems interact in multiple ways to affect Earth’s surface materials and processes. The ocean supports a variety of ecosystems and organisms, shapes landforms, and influences climate. Winds and clouds in the atmosphere interact with the landforms to determine patterns of weather.
  • Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, living organisms, and gravity break rocks, soils, and sediments into smaller particles and move them around.

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