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Grade 8 Environmental Science
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Unit 2 - October/November
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November Week 1
Students should be able to Describe why vegetation is used to describe a biome; Explain how temperature and precipitation determine which plants grow in an area; Explain how latitude and altitude affect which plants grow in an area.
List three characteristics of tropical rain forests; Name and describe the main layers of a tropical rain forest; Describe one plant in a temperate deciduous forest and an adaptation that helps plants survive.
Describe one adaptation that may help an animal survive in the taiga; Name two threats to the world’s forest biomes; Describe the difference between tropical and temperate grasslands; Describe the climate in a chaparral biome.
Describe two desert animals and the adaptations that help them survive; Describe one threat to the tundra biome.
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