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EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE (ESS)
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE (ESS)
Topic: Earth’s Surface - This topic focuses on the variety of processes that shape and reshape Earth’s surface.
4.ESS.1: Earth’s surface has specific characteristics and landforms that can be identified.
Catastrophic events such as flooding, volcanoes and earthquakes can create landforms.
About 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water and most of that is the ocean. Only a small portion of the Earth’s water is freshwater, which is found in rivers, lakes, groundwater and glaciers.
4.ESS.2: The surface of Earth changes due to weathering.
Rocks change shape, size and/or form due to water or glacial movement, freeze and thaw, wind, plant growth, acid rain, pollution and catastrophic events such as earthquakes, flooding, and volcanic activity.
Topic: Earth’s Living History - This topic focuses on using fossil evidence and living organisms to observe that suitable habitats depend upon a combination of biotic and abiotic factors.
4.LS.1: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
Ecosystems can change gradually or dramatically. When the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce and others die or move to new locations.
Ecosystems are based on interrelationships among and between biotic and abiotic factors. These include the diversity of other organisms present, the availability of food and other resources, and the physical attributes of the environment.
4.LS.2: Fossils can be compared to one another and to present-day organisms according to their similarities and differences.
The concept of biodiversity is expanded to include different classification schemes based upon shared internal and external characteristics of organisms.
Topic: Electricity, Heat and Matter This topic focuses on the conservation of matter and the processes of energy transfer and transformation, especially as they apply to heat and electrical energy.
4.PS.2: Energy can be transferred from one location to another or can be transformed from one form to another.
Electrical energy in circuits can be transformed to other forms of energy, including light, heat, sound and motion. Electricity and magnetism are closely related.