Vocabulary
How can Environments Change?
How do Changes Affect Living Things?
How do People Affect Plants and Animals?
What do People get from the Environment?
100
Define "drought"
A long period of dry weather
100
Name two ways that an environment can change.
Thunderstorm, flood, drought, tornado, hurricane, forest fire, etc.
100
How do plants grow after a forest fire?
Plants grow after the fire because of seeds on the ground that were protected from the fire because of their hard shell coating or because they were underground
100
Name the three different kinds of pollution.
Air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution
100
Name five foods that come from plants.
Apples, oranges, wheat, carrots, lettuce, rice, tomatoes, etc.
200
Define "endangered organisms"
An organism that is few in number
200
Explain what would happen to an organism if its environment changes.
If it is a bad change, the organism will have to leave the environment or it will die
200
Name two different "endangered organisms".
The Silversword, the Hawaiian Monk Seal, and the Giant Panda
200
Name two things that cause air pollution.
Cars, factories, and burning types of fuel
200
Name two foods that need to be changed before we can eat it and two foods that don't need to be changed.
Wheat and rice need to be changed; apples and tomatoes don't need to be changed
300
Define "pollution"
Anything harmful added to the air, water, or land
300
Explain why it would be bad for animals if all of the plants in their habitat die.
Those plants could either be their source of shelter or food, this means the animal will not be able to live in that habitat or it will starve or die because they have no shelter
300
Name two different "extinct organisms".
Dinosaurs, the Woolly Mammoth, and the Passenger Pigeon
300
Explain at least three ways in which people can protect habitats and living things.
They can plant trees, recycle, protect wetlands, and help animals that are placed in zoos so that they can go back into the wild
300
Describe where at least three clothing items come from.
Rubber on shoes comes from plants, wool sweater comes from sheep, cotton shirts come from plants, leather on shoes comes from animals, etc.
400
Define "extinct organism"
An organism that is no longer found on the earth
400
Explain what happened during the Dust Bowl.
During the time of the Dust Bowl there was a drought in the United States so that the farmers couldn't farm anymore and they had to move somewhere else
400
Explain why an organism might be endangered or extinct.
An organism might be endangered or extinct because their habitat has been destroyed, their food source has been destroyed, or people have been killing them
400
Name at least four ways that people can change the environment.
Building houses, building roads, building highways, farming, digging in the soil, etc.
400
Name five foods that come from animals.
Milk, eggs, chicken, beef, ham, sausage, etc.
500
Define "recycle"
To change something so it can be used again
500
Describe what could happen when an environment gets too much rain.
With too much rain there is flooding so that people and animals will have to leave in order to survive
500
Suppose people build some very tall buildings next to a habitat filled with plants and animals that are adapted to bright sunlight. Predict what might happen in the parts of the habitat that lie in the shadow of the new buildings.
Those plants and animals might die if they stayed there, they may adapt to the shaded habitat so that they don't need as much sunlight, or they may move to a different environment with more sunlight
500
Think of each kind of pollution and describe one way that people can reduce that type of pollution.
Air Pollution: Car-pooling, reduce factory air pollution by burning less, etc. Water Pollution: Don't throw trash in the water, don't put oil in the water, etc. Land Pollution: Don't litter, reduce the amount of trash you throw away, etc.
500
Where do different types of medicines come from?
They come from seeds, leaves, or the bark of many different types of plants
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