Comprehensive Science II - 7

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