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Population Changes and Biodiversity

Virginia SOL ENV.5

Investigate and understand how changes in population affect biodiversity and ecosystem success.

Study ENV.5 with SOL PrepBack to Environmental Science and Level II Expanded

What students need to be able to do

  • Analyze and interpret population growth curves to identify changes in population size.
  • Make, support, and evaluate a claim about the relationship among limiting factors, population size, and carrying capacity.
  • Make, support, and evaluate a claim about the importance of genetic variation on the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
  • Develop and use a model to explain how species diversity is affected by environmental pressures.
  • Explain how human population growth changed over time as a result of various factors and predict the effect of continued growth on the environment.