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Population Changes and Biodiversity

Virginia SOL ENV.5

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

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What students need to be able to do

  • Analyze and interpret population growth curves to identify changes in population size.
  • Make, support, and evaluate claims about the relationship among limiting factors, population size, and carrying capacity.
  • Make, support, and evaluate claims about the importance of genetic variation for ecosystem biodiversity.
  • Develop and use models to explain how species diversity is affected by environmental pressures.
  • Explain how human population growth has changed over time due to various factors and predict future environmental effects.