Science

Unit 1

• Climate and biomes
• Ecosystems and ecological communities
• Human impacts on Earth systems and habitats
• Water cycles
• Changes and movement of water
• Global movements of water
• Ocean temperatures and currents
• Role of density and salinity in ocean currents
• Weather and climate patterns and what influences these

Unit 2

• Influence of oceans on weather and climate
• Weather predictions
• Global climate patterns and changes
• Biological classification systems
• Structure and function of living things
• Cell structures and their functions
• Relationships of cells, tissues, organs, and systems
• Growth and development of organisms
• Single-cell and multicellular organisms

Unit 3

• Sexual and asexual transfer of genetic information to offspring
• Traits, variations of traits, and inheritance of traits
• Animal behaviors that increase odds of reproduction
• Sensory receptors and processes in animals
• Plant reproduction
• Food chains and food webs
• Global temperature trends and effects on organisms
• Ecosystems and ecological communities
• Potential and kinetic energy

Unit 4

• Mechanical energy
• Simple and complex machines
• Friction
• Law of Conservation of Energy
• Phases of matter and particle motion
• Density
• Changes in energy
• Energy transfer
• Relationship between temperature and energy