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Information about your Habitat	Content includes many facts and supporting details about the researched habitat and at least 7 biotic and abiotic factors	Content includes many facts and supporting details about the researched habitat and at least 6 biotic and abiotic factors	Content includes some facts and supporting details about the researched habitat and at least 5 biotic and abiotic factors	Content includes a few facts and supporting details about the researched habitat and at least 4 biotic and abiotic factors
Information about researched species	Content includes a lot of information about the species, including its role in its ecosystem and trophic input	Content includes a lot of information about the species, including its role in its ecosystem.	Content includes a lot of information about the species.	Content includes some information about the species.
Information about Environmental factors, pressures and succession	Content includes a lot of information about the environmental factors, pressures and succession facing the researched species and habitat. It includes relevant topics regarding population fluctuations, carrying capacity, limiting factors and human factors	Content includes a lot of information about the environmental factors, pressures and succession facing the researched species and habitat	Content includes 3-4 facts about the environmental factors and pressures facing the researched species and habitat	Content includes 1-2 facts about the environmental factors and pressures facing the researched species and habitat
Consequences of environmental issues	Content includes several consequences of the environmental factors and pressures facing the researched species, impacts and consequences for other species in the habitat and the habitat in general	Content includes 3 consequences of the environmental factors and pressures facing the researched species, impacts and consequences for other species in the habitat and the habitat in general	Content includes 2 consequences of the environmental factors and pressures facing the researched species.	Content includes a consequence of the environmental factors and pressures facing the researched species.
Human Impact	Content includes a lot of information about positive and negative human interactions, varying perspectives on the issues and proposes a few solutions and/or ideas for getting involved	Content includes a lot of information about positive and negative human interactions, varying perspectives on the issues and proposes a solution	Content includes 2-3 instances of positive and negative human interactions and proposes a solution	Content includes 1-3 instances of positive and negative human interactions.
Mechanics	No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	Almost no grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors	A few grammatical spelling, or punctuation errors.	Many grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.
Sources	All sources are accurately documented in the desired format.	All sources are accurately documented, but a few are not in the desired format.	All sources are accurately documented, but many are not in the desired format.	Some sources are not accurately documented.