NCES.5.L.2 - Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem.
- NCES.5.L.2.1 - Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands).
- NCES.5.L.2.2 - Classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers (biotic factors).
- NCES.5.L.2.3 - Infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationship of plants and animals to their ecosystem.