Key Vocabulary
Define nutrients
The necessary ingredients that help humans, animals, and plants live and grow.
Define biotic and abiotic
Biotic: alive
Abiotic: not alive
List one of the two ways to draw a food chain
With arrows to show transfer of energy or through a pyramid.
What are the two main things that plants need to grow and live?
Air and Water!
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Define an ecosystem
A community of living and nonliving organisms interacting in a specific area.
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What is the main difference between a food chain and a food web?
Food webs have multiple food chains, where a food chain cannot contain a food web by itself.
Plants do not need what to grow?
Soil!
Besides the create your own ecosystem exit slip, what was the other exit slip we created and turned in?
Parts of a plant exit slip! Label the parts of the plant and what they do.
Define a food web
A collection of multiple food chains found in an ecosystem
What was our first exit slip about for ecosystems?
You had to create a drawing of your own ecosystem with 3 biotic and 3 abiotic factors in the drawing.
Pick one biome we presented on and list one of their producers
Answers will vary based on presentations. Check with presenting group.
What were the 4 variables (things we changed) in each plant with our experiment? With the exception of plant #1, which had everything.
No air, not water, no soil, and no sunlight
List all 5 biomes from our food chain and food web presentations (order does not matter)
Aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, tundra
Define decomposer
Breaks down the remains and waste of organisms and releases them back into the environment, such as bacteria and worms
List one way an ecosystem is different from a habitat
Possible answers: Ecosystems have multiple organisms, usually bigger than habitats, can house many habitats inside an ecosystem, wide variety of organisms, etc.
Pick one biome we presented on and list one of theirtertiary consumers
Answers will vary based on presentations. Check with presenting group.
List the three main organs a plant has
Roots, stems, and leaves.
What were the names of the two students of the example where one student only water their plant once a month and the other once a week? (it was in your pre-assessment)
Sammy and Nancy!
Compare and contrast a producer and a consumer
Producer: An organism that produces food for themselves and others, such as plants
Consumer: An organism that depends on other organisms for food, such as animals and humans
List one similarity between ecosystems and habitats
List all 4 main trophic levels in order from least to greatest
producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, and tertiary consumer.
What was our key takeaway from the plant experiment?
Plants need air and water to live and grow. They can live and grow without soil, but not without air, water, and sunlight.
List the 3 animal classifications and define them.
Herbivore: An animal that gets energy by eating mostly plants.
Carnivore: An animal that gets energy from eating mostly meat.
Omnivore: An animal that gets energy from eating both plants and meat.