🌱 Who Eats Who?
A plant grows taller in sunlight. Explain how it gets the energy needed for growth and where that energy originally comes from.
What is the plant makes its own food using sunlight (photosynthesis), and the energy comes from the Sun?
Explain how climate determines the types of plants and animals in a biome.
What is temperature and precipitation affect which organisms can survive?
A drum is hit, producing sound. What two types of energy are involved in this process?
What are mechanical energy and sound energy?
Explain how wind influences surface ocean currents.
What is wind pushes surface water, creating currents?
Explain the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources using examples.
What is renewable can be replaced quickly (solar), nonrenewable take millions of years (fossil fuels)?
A mouse eats seeds, and a snake eats the mouse. Identify the roles of each organism.
What is producer (seeds/plant), primary consumer (mouse), secondary consumer (snake)?
A region has low rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation. Identify the biome and justify your answer.
What is a desert because of low precipitation and limited plant life?
A ball sitting on a shelf falls to the ground. Identify the energy change that occurs.
What is potential energy changing to kinetic energy?
Compare warm and cold ocean currents and their effects on nearby climates.
What is warm currents warm climates; cold currents cool them?
Predict what will happen if humans continue to rely heavily on nonrenewable resources.
What is resources will run out and environmental damage will increase?
If a top predator is removed from a food web, predict one likely effect on the ecosystem.
What is prey populations increase and the ecosystem becomes unbalanced?
Compare biodiversity in a tropical rainforest and a tundra and explain the reason for the difference.
What is rainforest has more biodiversity due to warm temperatures and abundant water?
Hot air rises while cool air sinks. Identify the type of energy transfer AND explain why it happens.
What is convection due to density differences in warm and cool air?
Predict how a warm ocean current might affect the weather of a coastal city.
What is warmer temperatures and possibly more precipitation?
Compare the environmental impact of using solar energy versus coal.
What is solar is cleaner; coal causes pollution?
Compare a food chain and a food web and explain why one is more stable.
What is a food web is more stable because it has multiple energy pathways?
Predict how a long-term decrease in rainfall would affect a grassland biome.
What is fewer grasses, possible desertification, and loss of organisms?
A metal pan gets hot on a stove, and then heat spreads through the pan. Compare the energy transfer types.
What is conduction (direct contact in both cases)?
This term describes the curving of moving objects - wind, ocean currents, and airplanes.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Explain how human activity can negatively impact biodiversity.
What is pollution, deforestation, habitat loss reduce species?
In an energy pyramid, why are there fewer organisms at higher levels even if food is available below?
What is energy is lost at each level, so less energy is available to support many organisms?
Explain why ecosystems with high biodiversity are more stable.
What is more species provide alternative food sources and resilience to change?
A person feels heat from the Sun, then from a hot rock. Compare the two transfers.
What is radiation from the Sun and conduction from the rock?
This is the type of weather and air pressure change associated with a cold front.
What is storms and changing from low to high pressure?
Propose one solution to reduce human impact on natural resources and explain how it helps.
What is conservation, recycling, or renewable energy reduces resource use and damage?