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Performance Expectations:

HS-LS2-1. Use mathematical and/or computational representations to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales.

• Science & Engineering Practices

  Developing and Using Models - Develop and/or use a model (including mathematical and computational) to generate data to support explanations, predict phenomena, analyze systems, and/or solve problems

• Disciplinary Core Ideas

  LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems - Ecosystems have carrying capacities, which are limits to the numbers of organisms and populations they can support. These limits result from such factors as the availability of living and nonliving resources and from such challenges such as predation, competition, and disease. Organisms would have the capacity to produce populations of great size were it not for the fact that environments and resources are finite. This fundamental tension affects the abundance (number of individuals) of species in any given ecosystem.

• Crosscutting Concepts

  Scale, Proportion, and Quantity - The significance of a phenomenon is dependent on the scale, proportion, and quantity at which it occurs.