Energy Production and Metabolism
Virginia SOL AP.7
Investigate how body systems work together to support energy production and metabolism by obtaining, transforming, and utilizing resources.
What students need to be able to do
- Identify the major components of the digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular, and endocrine systems related to energy and metabolism.
- Develop and use models to illustrate how the structure and function of body systems support energy and metabolism.
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about how the structure of cells and tissues in body systems affect energy and metabolism.
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about how energy and metabolism require body systems to work independently and together.
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about the importance of nutrition on human health.
- Plan and conduct investigations related to energy and metabolism in body systems.
- Explain a disorder, disease, injury, lifestyle, or component of aging that affects energy and metabolism.