Chicks and Chickens
The age of the baby chicks
3 days old
Where Plants get their energy
The Sun
A push or pull on an object that causes it to move or change speed
Force
A mixture of gases that surrounds the earth
The atmosphere
What the chickens are going to be used for
To be eaten
Another name for trophic levels
The Food Chain
The goal of a simple machine
To make things easier, "work smarter not harder"
Where the apples come from that use the least amount of energy to get to your table.
A local farm
The breed of chickens the chicks are
Cornish Cross Chickens
It's what recycles dead matter
Decomposers
When you are splitting wood with an axe, you are using this simple machine
A wedge
Reusing your water bottle, carpooling, and using cloth grocery bags helps reduce your what
Carbon Footprint
Is counting a qualitative observation, or quantitative?
Quantitative (root word is quantity, which means an amount of something)
The trophic level that a polar bear is (Hint-it starts with the letter T and is at the top of the pyramid)
Tertiary
A wheel barrow, car tires, or on our field trip, the rotary egg beaters-are example of this simple machine
A wheel and axle
When something can be replaced or regrown easily
Renewable
Is color a qualitative observation, or a quantitative?
Qualitative (root word is quality, which means characteristic trait of something)
The trophic level of a pine tree (Hint: It starts with a P, and is at the bottom of the pyramid)
A producer
A tractor, which has many simple machines built into one, is called this
A complex machine
Solar power, wind power, and water power are a few examples
Sources of renewable energy, or energy sources that has a smaller carbon footprint