Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
5.10.A
compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive in a specific environment such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals; and
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
5.10.B
differentiate between inherited traits of plants and animals such as spines on a cactus or shape of a beak and learned behaviors such as an animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
SCIENCE.5.5.G
explain how factors or conditions impact stability and change in objects, organisms, and systems.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
SCIENCE.5.13.A
analyze the structures and functions of different species to identify how organisms survive in the same environment; and
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
SCIENCE.5.13.B
explain how instinctual behavioral traits such as turtle hatchlings returning to the sea and learned behavioral traits such as orcas hunting in packs increase chances of survival.