Plants & Animals Grade 3
The part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, bringing water and nutrients to the rest of the plant.
What are roots?
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
What is an ecosystem?
Needs carbon dioxide to survive
What are plants?
The part of a plant that produces seeds
What is the flower?
The part of the ecosystem that include plants, animals, and micro organisms
What are the biotic components?
Sage, sweetgrass, cedar and tobacco are sacred plants to these groups of people.
Who are the First Nations and Metis people?
a living thing that can function on its own
What is an organism?
This ecosystem is characterized by land that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, and supports plants and animals adapted to these wet conditions
What are the wetlands?
Ears, eyes, nose, tongue, and skin are examples of these types of organs.
What is sensory organs?
A change in the environment that an organism can detect and respond to. Example:
What is a stimuli?
This type of ecosystem is a harsh, dry environment characterized by low precipitation, extreme temperatures, and limited vegetation
What is the desert?
The part in plants that collects light needed for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
An organism that breaks down or eats decaying material for its energy source
What is a decomposer?
The non-living parts of an ecosystem, providing the physical and chemical conditions that support life
What are the Abiotic components?
These 2 organisms use oxygen from photosynthesis for respiration
What are plants and animals?
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water
What is photosynthesis?
Three of the 5 abiotic components of the ecosystem include
What is energy from the sun, water, soil, air, and temperature?
Sensory organs in animals help meet animals' needs by detecting these things. (Name 3)
What is food, other animals, danger, temperature?