2.6+Diversity+in+Animals+NCEA

=Achievement Standard 91155 =

Biology 2.3
Demonstrate understanding of adaptation of plants or animals to their way of life

This achievement standard involves demonstrating understanding of adaptation of plants or animals to their way of life.


 * Achievement Criteria **


 * **Achievement ** || **Achievement with Merit ** || **Achievement with Excellence ** ||
 *  Demonstrate understanding of adaptation of plants or animals to their way of life. ||  Demonstrate in-depth understanding of adaptation of plants or animals to their way of life. ||  Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of adaptation of plants or animals to their way of life. ||


 * Explanatory Notes **

1 This achievement standard is derived from //The New Zealand Curriculum,// Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 2007, Level 7. It is aligned with the following achievement objective in the Living World strand: Life Processes and is related to the material in the //Teaching and Learning Guide for Biology//, Ministry of Education, 2010 at [|http://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz] .
 * Explore the diverse ways in which animals and plants carry out the life processes

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">2 //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Demonstrate understanding //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">involves describing the adaptations and identifying the aspects of the adaptations that enable each organism to carry out its life process(es) in order to survive in its habitat.

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Demonstrate in-depth understanding //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">involves providing a biological reason that explains how or why the adaptations enable each organism to carry out its life process(es) in order to survive in its habitat.

//<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Demonstrate comprehensive understanding //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">involves showing understanding by linking several biological ideas. The linking of ideas may involve justifying, evaluating, comparing and contrasting, or analysing, and must include consideration of the two points from below appropriate to the chosen context. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">In the context of //understanding of adaptation// related to one life process over three taxonomic or functional groups of multi-cellular plants or animals: In the context of //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">understanding of adaptation //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">across two related life processes within one taxonomic or functional group:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">comparing diversity of adaptation in response to the same demand across different taxonomic or functional groups
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">limitations and advantages involved in each feature within each organism
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">connections between two life processes within each organism which enhance the effectiveness of both processes
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">limitations and advantages involved in each feature within each organism.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">3 //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Understanding of adaptation //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">is demonstrated in relation to one life process over three taxonomic or functional groups of multi-cellular plants or animals, or across two related life processes within one taxonomic or functional group.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">4 //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Adaptation //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> involves the range of ways in which organisms have developed strategies to carry out the life processes. An adaptationrefers to a feature and its function as it enables an organism to carry out a life process and thus occupy a specific ecological niche. It may include structural, behavioural, or physiological features of an organism. An adaptation provides an advantage for the organism in its specific habitat and ecological niche.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">5 Way of life encompasses the ways in which an organism carries out all its life processes. It includes:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">relationships with other organisms – competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">reproductive strategies
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">adaptations to the physical habitat.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">6 Life processes are selected from:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">internal transport
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">gas exchange
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">transpiration
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">nutrition
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">excretion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">support and movement
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">sensitivity and co-ordination
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">reproduction.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">7 Conditions of Assessment related to this achievement standard can be found at <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|www.tki.org.nz/e/community/ncea/conditions-assessment.php] <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">.