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  • Subject: Biology
  • AS: AS90716
  • Level: 3
  • Credits: 4
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Biology 3.4 Describe animal behaviour and plant responses in relation to environmental factors

Achievement criteria

The level of achievement that you will reach is decided by the way you answer each question. The key words are describe, explain, and discuss animal behaviour and plant responses in relation to environmental factors.

Achievement

  • You are able to describe animal behaviour and plant responses in relation to environmental factors. This involves identifying key words to apply in the context, writing precise and complete descriptions in an ordered manner, and giving features of and/or outlining.

Make sure you can:

  • outline relevant terms and definitions
  • read an actogram
  • describe relevant biological mechanisms and their adaptive significance
  • describe and give examples of interspecific interactions
  • describe the role of environmental cues in influencing plant responses and animal behavior; and provide relevant examples.

Achievement with Merit

  • You are able to explain animal behaviour and plant responses in relation to environmental factors.
  • You must be able to provide a reason as to how or why something occurs.

Make sure you:

  • can meet the criteria for Achievement
  • use resource material and examples to support your explanations
  • understand how turgor pressure is produced at the cellular level
  • can link animal behaviour or plant responses to the survival of the species
  • can accurately interpret an actogram.

Achievement with Excellence

  • You are able to describe and discuss animal behaviour and plant responses in relation to environmental factors.
  • You must be able to show understanding by linking biological ideas. It may involve justifying, relating, evaluating, reviewing, interpreting, comparing and contrasting, and analysing.

Make sure you:

  • meet the criteria for Merit
  • qualify your answers with appropriate biology terminology, for example, optimum, maximum, shorter, and longer
  • explain and differentiate between different types of plant or animal responses, with examples
  • present your ideas in a logical, ordered, and concise manner.

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