The ACE climate change assembly addresses the following science standards prescribed by the state of Colorado.

Source: Colorado Model Content Standards: Science

Standard 3, Benchmark 6 (Grades 9-12):  changes in an ecosystem can affect biodiversity and biodiversity contributes to an ecosystems dynamic equilibrium.

Standard 4, Benchmark 4 (Grades 9-12): there are costs, benefits, and consequences of natural recourse exploration, development, and consumption (for example: geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and greenhouse gas)
 

Standard 4, Benchmark 5 (Grades 9-12): there are consequences for the use of renewable and nonrenewable resources
 

Standard 4, Benchmark 6 (Grades 9-12): evidence is used (for example: fossils, rock layers, ice cores, radiometric dating) to investigate how Earth has changed or remained constant over short and long periods of time (for example: Mount St. Helen’s’ eruption, Pangaea, and geologic time)
 

Standard 4, Benchmark 10 (Grades 9-12): there are interrelationships between the circulation of oceans and weather and climate
 

Standard 4, Benchmark 11 (Grades 9-12): there are factors that may influence weather patterns and climate and their effects within ecosystems (for example: elevation, proximity to oceans, prevailing winds, fossil fuel burning, volcanic eruptions)

Standard 5, Benchmark 4 (Grades 9-12): there are cause-effect relationships within systems (for example: the effect of temperature on gas volume, effect of carbon dioxide level on the greenhouse effect, effects of changing nutrients at the base of a food pyramid).