Food Chains
What organism starts this food chain?
🌱 Grass → 🦗 Grasshopper → 🐸 Frog → 🐍 Snake → 🦅 Hawk
Grass
What is a producer?
An organism that makes its own food, usually a plant.
Identify the subject and predicate:
The students completed their writing assignment.
Subject = The students
Predicate = completed their writing assignment
Why do good readers ask questions while reading?
To help them understand the text and learn more.
What does volume measure?
The amount of space inside a three-dimensional figure.
What does an arrow in a food chain show?
The direction that matter/energy moves when one organism eats another.
Is grass a producer or consumer?
Producer.
Put these in the best order:
What does energy mean?
Answer: Strength or power that living things need to live and grow.
What is the volume of a rectangular prism that is 4 units long, 3 units wide, and 2 units tall?
4 × 3 × 2 = 24 cubic units
If a frog eats a grasshopper, what happens to some of the grasshopper's matter?
It becomes part of the frog.
Is a frog a producer or consumer?
Consumer.
What type of writing gives the reader facts and information?
Informational writing.
Plants ______ energy from the Sun, while decomposers ______ nutrients into the soil.
absorb; release
What is a rectangular prism?
Answer: The face or layer that we use as the starting point for finding the volume. Its area is called the base area.
Put these in the correct order:
Snake — Grass — Hawk — Frog — Grasshopper
Grass → Grasshopper → Frog → Snake → Hawk
An animal that eats other animals is called a...
🥩 Carnivore
What type of figurative language gives human characteristics to something that isn't human?
Personification
The wind whispered through the trees.
Why do readers ask questions after reading?
To review what they learned, check their understanding, and think about what they still want to know.
A. What is a face?
B. What is base area?
C. What is a layer?
A Answer: A flat surface of a three-dimensional figure.
B Answer: The area of the base of a three-dimensional figure.
C Answer: One level of unit cubes that makes up part of a solid.
Explain this statement:
“Matter moves through a food chain.”
Matter from organisms is transferred to other organisms when they eat, and matter can also return to the environment through waste and decomposition.
An animal that eats both plants and animals is called a...
🍎🥩 Omnivore
Identify the figurative language in each sentence:
A. Her smile was as bright as the sun.
B. The old house groaned in the wind.
C. My backpack weighs a ton.
D. The moon was a silver ball in the sky.
A. Simile
B. Personification
C. Hyperbole
D. Metaphor
What makes a question a strong question?
A strong question focuses on an important idea from the text and helps you understand the topic more deeply.
A rectangular prism has a length of 8 units, a width of 5 units, and a height of 6 units.
1. Find the area of the base.
2. Find the volume.
3. Write a multiplication expression that represents the volume.
8 × 5 = 40 square units
Volume:
40 × 6 = 240 cubic units
Expression:
8 × 5 × 6 = 240 cubic units