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Overarching Concepts:
- Producers convert sunlight, water, and air into energy that can be used by living things.
- Consumers get energy by eating (consuming) producers or other consumers.
- Decomposers can be both producers and consumers.
- The transfer of energy between producers to consumers is call the food chain. When more than one food chain is interwoven, it is called a food web.
- The food chain represents the cycling of matter and transfer of energy from organism to organism by production and consumption, beginning with the energy produced by the sun.
- In decomposition, dead matter is broken down and recycled by living organisms.
- All organisms need a suitable environment for them to live. Changes in the physical environment influence the types of organisms that exist.
- Adaptations and accommodations increase an organism’s chance of survival.
- Each ecosystem is characterized by a set of living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) factors that may differ from ecosystem to ecosystem.
- Plants and animals depend on one another for survival.
1. Fort Ross was established north of San Francisco.
2. Many Mexican settlements were located near the coast.
3. Sutter’s Fort was established near what is now the city of San Francisco.
4. The United States started to expand in the early 1800s.
5. Settlers followed trails leading west to California from the eastern United States.
6. Gold was discovered in 1848, and “gold fever” spread across the world.
7. California’s population grew quickly during the Gold Rush.
8. Mining life was hard and few people became rich.
9. The Gold Rush changed California’s government.
10. Women who traveled west to California faced many challenges.
11. Early women of California made a difference in the lives of other Californians.
12. Biddy Mason gained freedom in California and made a difference in many people’s lives.
13. Changes in the control of California happened in the 1840s.
14. California became the thirty-first state in the Union in 1850.
2. Many Mexican settlements were located near the coast.
3. Sutter’s Fort was established near what is now the city of San Francisco.
4. The United States started to expand in the early 1800s.
5. Settlers followed trails leading west to California from the eastern United States.
6. Gold was discovered in 1848, and “gold fever” spread across the world.
7. California’s population grew quickly during the Gold Rush.
8. Mining life was hard and few people became rich.
9. The Gold Rush changed California’s government.
10. Women who traveled west to California faced many challenges.
11. Early women of California made a difference in the lives of other Californians.
12. Biddy Mason gained freedom in California and made a difference in many people’s lives.
13. Changes in the control of California happened in the 1840s.
14. California became the thirty-first state in the Union in 1850.
Unit 3: Early History to Statehood
Overarching Concepts
Physical Science: Magnetism and Electricity
Overarching Concepts:
· The Earth has a magnetic field.
· A compass can be used to detect magnetic fields.
· The two basic types of circuits are series circuits and parallel circuits.
· Electric currents produce magnetic fields.
· Electromagnets use electrical energy to make things work.
· Charged objects repel or attract each other.
· Static electricity occurs with the gain or loss of electric charges.
· Magnets have two poles, and they may be called North and South, or positive and negative. Like poles repel and unlike poles attract.
· Electrical energy can be converted to heat and light through resistance in wires.
· Electrical energy can be converted to motion using devices such as an electromagnet or electric motor.
Overarching Concepts:
· The Earth has a magnetic field.
· A compass can be used to detect magnetic fields.
· The two basic types of circuits are series circuits and parallel circuits.
· Electric currents produce magnetic fields.
· Electromagnets use electrical energy to make things work.
· Charged objects repel or attract each other.
· Static electricity occurs with the gain or loss of electric charges.
· Magnets have two poles, and they may be called North and South, or positive and negative. Like poles repel and unlike poles attract.
· Electrical energy can be converted to heat and light through resistance in wires.
· Electrical energy can be converted to motion using devices such as an electromagnet or electric motor.
