Plant Needs
Where do plants get their energy from?
The Sun
What is an organism?
Any living thing.
Is most of the water on earth freshwater or saltwater?
Saltwater
What are the names for a male and female chicken?
Rooster (male) and Hen (female)
What's Mr. Casto's favorite basketball team?
The Las Vegas Aces
Where do plants get hydrogen and oxygen from?
Water
What do we call organisms located at the very bottom of a food web?
Producers
How many planets are in our solar system?
Eight: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
What makes goats' teeth different from ours?
They don't have top teeth.
Name one of the plants growing in the back of the classroom.
Beans, peas, squash, pumpkins, cabbage, basil, collard greens, lettuce, cucumber, watermelon, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, Job's tears, sunflowers, toothache plant, strawberries.
Where do plants get carbon from?
What do we call organisms that eat other living organisms?
Consumers
What is the main source of the freshwater that we drink and use every day?
Snow melting in mountains and coming to our reservoirs, like Lake Mead.
What was the name of the desert tortoise that lives at the Springs Preserve?
Mojave Max
What makes growing plants in our hydroponics system different from growing them outside?
Any of the following:
No soil, lights instead of sun, 24 hours of light energy, powdered nutrients, temperature control, etc.
Name the two places from which plants get the MATERIALS that they need.
Air and Water
What do we call organisms that only eat dead organic matter?
Decomposers or Detrivores
What is the MAIN reason that some stars in the night sky brighter than others?
They are different distances from the Earth.
What does it mean for an animal to be "threatened"?
The animal must be protected so that it does not go extinct.
Name two types of energy.
Gravitational, mechanical, chemical, potential, electrical, light, thermal (heat), nuclear, kinetic, sonic (sound).
What is the name of the green material inside of a plant's leaves that allow it to collect sunlight and perform photosynthesis?
Chlorophyll or Chloroplasts
Because the organisms at the bottom of a food web can only be plants or phytoplankton, what is the origin of all energy in a food web?
The Sun
Why are days longer in the summer and shorter in the winter?
The Earth is tilted on its axis.
What are some reasons an animal might go extinct?
Habitat loss, over-hunting, pollution, invasive species, disease, etc.
What is the smallest form of matter that retains its chemical properties?
The atom