This achievement standard involves demonstrating understanding of adaptation of plants or animals to their way of life.
Achieved |
Merit |
Excellence |
Demonstrate understanding
of adaptation of plants or
animals to their way of life. |
Demonstrate in-depth understanding of adaptation of plants or animals to their way of life. |
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of adaptation of plants or animals to their way of life. |
Demonstrate understanding involves describing the adaptations and identifying the aspects of the adaptations that enable each organism to carry out its life process(es) in order to survive in its habitat. |
Demonstrate in-depth understanding involves providing a biological reason that explains how or why the adaptations enable each organism to carry out its life process(es) in order to survive in its habitat. |
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding involves showing understanding by linking several biological ideas. The linking of ideas may involve justifying, evaluating, comparing and contrasting, or analysing, and must include consideration of the two points from below appropriate to the chosen context. |