Clarification Statement - S.3.LS.4.4.CS:
Examples of environmental changes could include both natural and human-influenced changes in land characteristics, water distribution, temperature, food, and other organisms.

Assessment Boundary - S.3.LS.4.4.AB:
Assessment is limited to a single environmental change. Assessment does not include the greenhouse effect or climate change.

Science and Engineering Practices - 3-5.SEP7.3:
Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem by citing relevant evidence about how it meets the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Disciplinary Core Ideas - S.3.LS.4.4.DCI:
LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience •When the environment changes in ways that affect a place’s physical characteristics, temperature, or availability of resources, some organisms survive and reproduce, others move to new locations, yet others move into the transformed environment, and some die. (secondary to 3-LS4-4) LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans •Populations live in a variety of habitats, and change in those habitats affects the organisms living there.

Crosscutting Concepts - CC3.2:
A system can be described in terms of its components and their interactions.