The derived sense involves knowing the corpus of knowledge in science. The fundamental sense subsumes the abilities, emotional dispositions, and communications of the current standards-based definition of science literacy, while the derived sense subsumes the understanding and application of the big ideas of science in the standards-based definition of science literacy including the unifying concepts of science, the nature of science, the relationships among science, technology, society and environment, the procedures of science, and the social relevance of science.