Unit 1: Biodiversity and the interconnectedness of life Biology
The current view of the biosphere as a dynamic system composed of Earth’s diverse, interrelated and interacting ecosystems developed from the work of eighteenth and nineteenth century naturalists, who collected, classified, measured and mapped the distribution …
Unit 1 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSBL017
Biological classification systems reflect evolutionary relatedness between groups of organisms
ACSBL017 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSBL015
Biodiversity includes the diversity of species and ecosystems; measures of biodiversity rely on classification and are used to make comparisons across spatial and temporal scales
ACSBL015 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSBL016
Biological classification is hierarchical and based on different levels of similarity of physical features, methods of reproduction and molecular sequences
ACSBL016 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSBL006
Select, construct and use appropriate representations, including classification keys, food webs and biomass pyramids, to communicate conceptual understanding, solve problems and make predictions
ACSBL006 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSBL014
Scientific knowledge can be used to develop and evaluate projected economic, social and environmental impacts and to design action for sustainability
ACSBL014 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSBL022
The biotic components of an ecosystem transfer and transform energy originating primarily from the sun to produce biomass, and interact with abiotic components to facilitate biogeochemical cycling, including carbon and nitrogen cycling; these interactions …
ACSBL022 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum