Comprehensive Science II - 7
Overview
Explore the foundations of science, including energy, Earth’s changing features and structures, Earth’s history, genetics, heredity, and the organization and interaction of living organisms.
Major Concepts:
Matter and Energy
- Food Chains and Webs
- Transformation of Energy
- Law of Conservation of Energy
Interdependence of Life
- Biological Interactions
- Evidence of Change
- Evolution and Natural Selection
The Earth
- Geological Age
- Layers of the Earth
- Plate Tectonics
Patterns of Change
- Processes That Shape the Earth
- Heat Flow Inside Earth
- Human Impact on Earth
Energy Resources
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Properties of Light
- Phases of Matter
- Adaptation to the Environment
Heredity and Genetics
- Biotechnology
- Heredity
- Patterns of Inheritance
- Mitosis and Meiosis
Advanced:
- Classification
- Thermal Energy
- Forces That Drive Natural Selection
- Processes of Plate Movement
- Landforms on Earth