AS+90716

NZQA External Examination, Nov-Dec of Achievement Standard 90716 (B3.4) v. 2 (Nov. 2005). Describe animal behaviour and plant responses in relation to environmental factors (4 credits) Assessment Criteria ** || **  Achievement with Merit ** || **  Achievement with Excellence ** || ||    * Describe animal behaviour and plant responses in relation to environmental factors. * Explain animal behaviour or plant responses in relation to environmental factors. ||    * Describe animal behaviour and plant responses in relation to environmental factors. * Discuss animal behaviour or plant responses in relation to environmental factors. || Explanatory Notes 1 This achievement standard is derived from //Biology in the New Zealand Curriculum//, Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 1994, p. 28, achievement objective 8.1 (a). 2 //Animal behaviour and plant responses// will be selected from those relating to: timing (annual, daily, lunar, tidal) competition for resources) behaviours, hierarchical behaviour, competition for resources). 3 The relationship of environmental factors to behaviour/response may be in terms of the process involved or the adaptive significance. 4 Terms characteristics of, or an account of. occurs. may involve students in justifying, relating, evaluating, comparing and contrasting, and analysing.
 * **  Achievement
 * * Describe animal behaviour and plant responses in relation to environmental factors.
 * orientation (tropisms, nastic responses, taxes, kineses, homing, migration)
 * inter-specific relationships (predation, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism,
 * intra-specific relationships (territoriality, cooperative interactions, reproductive
 * Describe requires the student to define, use annotated diagrams, give
 * Explain requires the student to provide a reason as to how or why something
 * Discuss requires the student to show understanding by linking biological ideas. It