Science for Ohio: Academic Content Standards Alignment for Science--TENTH GRADE
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This chart identifies ALL strand areas in the Tenth Grade standards. Areas highlighted in yellow are addressed if all of the inquiries identified below are implemented.
Note: Generally, a Science for Ohio inquiry is not included in in a grade level unless it has one or more of the Earth and Space, Life, or Physical science (content-oriented) strands. Indicator statements for these three strands are listed below under the heading Ohio Academic Standard.

Dig This! Erosion Investigation

Ohio Academic Standard:

• Explain how the acquisition and use of resources, urban growth and waste disposal can accelerate natural change and impact the quality of life.
• Describe ways that human activity can alter biogeochemical cycles (e.g., carbon and nitrogen cycles) as well as food webs and energy pyramids (e.g., pest control, legume rotation crops vs. chemical fertilizers).
• Describe advances and issues in Earth and space science that have important long-lasting effects on science and society (e.g., geologic time scales, global warming, depletion of resources and exponential population growth).

Ohio Academic Standard: Explain how the acquisition and use of resources, urban growth and waste disposal can accelerate natural change and impact the quality of life.

Ohio Academic Standard:

• Describe ways that human activity can alter biogeochemical cycles (e.g., carbon and nitrogen cycles) as well as food webs and energy pyramids (e.g., pest control, legume rotation crops vs. chemical fertilizers).
• Describe how matter cycles and energy flows through different levels of organization in living systems and between living systems and the physical environment. Explain how some energy is stored and much is dissipated into the environment as thermal energy (e.g., food webs and energy pyramids).
• Explain how living things interact with biotic and abiotic components of the environment (e.g., predation, competition, natural disasters and weather).
• Relate how distribution and abundance of organisms and populations in ecosystems are limited by the ability of the ecosystem to recycle materials and the availability of matter, space and energy.