Plants and Fish
This living thing adds oxygen to the aquarium.
What are green plants?
Of producers and consumers, this one can make it's own food.
What are producers?
This part of a crickets body does the same job as fins do for a fish.
What are legs?
What is acid rain?
Like the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, this worked as a watershed from our aquariums.
What are our terrariums?
What are gills?
Fish.
What are Consumers?
What is thorax?
True or False? More plants = More Fish
FALSE! Too many plants crowd and ecosystem. The plants create bacteria that use up all of the oxygen.
Most of the life in the Chesapeake Bay is supported by this.
What are water grasses?
Plants need to grow before animals can be added for this reason.
What is so the animals have something to eat?
Plants.
What are producers?
In order for plants to germinate they need warm temperatures and this:
What is water?
Before starting her pollution project Janet asked, "Does acid rain do more harm in the mountains than lakes?" Can she investigate this question using her eco-column?
No, a more appropriate question would be, does acidic water affect plant growth.
Stating that you believe that the water in your aquarium will turn acidic after adding vinegar is an example of making one of these.
What is a prediction or hypothesis?
An ecosystem made up of a clear tub, leaf litter, soil, pine seedling would represent what type of ecosystem?
A land ecosystem.
Snails.
What are scavengers?
This makes plants green.
What is Chlorophyll?
This unit measures the acidity of water and soil.
What is pH?
The part of an experiment that is changed.
What is a variable?
All of the energy stored in food started as this:
energy from the sun.
Pill Bugs.
What are scavengers?
Of these, this is the only non-living part of your ecosystem: plants, fish, pill bugs, water.
What is water?
Acid rain in the real world is produced by the mixing of gases produced by this and rain.
What are fossil fuels?
The part of an experiment that stays the same.
What is a constant?