NGSS · Life Science · Grades 6–8 (Middle School)

MS-LS2-1 Ecosystems: Resource Availability & Populations

Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.

Kentucky 6-LS2-1 uses the same wording.

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