standard_description: Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.
problem_activity: A biologist is tracking the location of three different animals. On the first day of spring, the biologist records the following information about the three animals:
The first animal is located
$$220$$
m below sea level.
The second animal is located at an elevation of
$$0$$
m.
The third animal has an elevation of
$$−10$$
m.
a.   Draw a number line and represent each animal’s elevation on the number line.
b.   Name a possible animal that could be at each elevation.


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