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These correlations are for older materials. They do not cover the materials adopted in 2006.
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Concept Statement: Show Concept Overview
3 Living organisms depend on one another and on their environment for survival.


Over-All Rating: Limited coverage of this concept.
Text includes huge amounts of extraneous life science content, both in terms of having topics that are not part of the standards, and in including extraneous concepts and vocabulary within the content pages that do relate to the standards. An earlier printing of this text has many error-filled correlations of the text with the standards.

Features that help student learning:
Text provides moderate coverage of standard 3a.


Features that do not help student learning:
Text includes huge amounts of extraneous life science content, both in terms of having topics that are not part of the standards, and in including extraneous concepts and vocabulary within the content pages that do relate to the standards.


Ratings for Standards - McGraw Hill:
3 Living organisms depend on one another and on their environment for survival. Limited   
3a Students know ecosystems can be characterized by their living and nonliving components. Moderate   
3b Students know that in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and animals survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. Limited   
3c Students know many plants depend on animals for pollination and seed dispersal, and animals depend on plants for food and shelter. Limited   
3d Students know that most microorganisms do not cause disease and that many are beneficial. Limited   
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