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Learning Intentions

• You can identify different ways that animals communicate with other animals.

• You can describe various responses to communication that lead to increased survival.

• You can explain how interactions with other members of a community can increase or decrease survival, and therefore distribution and abundance.

Content Standards being covered:

Essential knowledge 3.E.1: Individuals can act on information and communicate it to others.

Essential knowledge 4.A.5: Communities are composed of populations of organisms that interact in complex ways.

Essential knowledge 4.A.6: Interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy.

Essential knowledge 4.B.3: Interactions between and within populations influence patterns of species distribution and abundance.

Essential knowledge 4.B.4: Distribution of local and global ecosystems changes over time.

Essential knowledge 4.C.4: The diversity of species within an ecosystem may influence the stability of the ecosystem.

Habits of Mind/Life skills being covered:

Applying past knowledge to current situations

Journal Entry:

How would communication increase survival for evolutionary impact?