Grade 5s
The gradual wearing away of land or soil due to glaciers, water or wind.
What is erosion?
Wet, spongy ground that is usually peaty and mossy.
A low, flat, wetland that is covered partly or entirely by shallow, stagnant water. It usually has peaty soil that ranges from very alkaline to slightly acidic.
What is a fen?
Plants start out as a...
Seed
Which of the following is NOT a way that plants spread their seeds:
- wind
- water
- explosions
- fire
A consumer that eats both animals and plants.
What is an omnivore?
Water plants that are completely below water. Examples are waterweed and coontail.
What are submergent or submerged plants?
It is the part of the plant that become a fruit.
What is the flower?
True or False: seeds need light to germinate.
False
This type of root has one root that is longer than the rest.
What is a tap root?
A substance that provides the nourishment needed for the survival of an organism.
Animals that consume herbivores.
What are secondary or second-order consumers?
Animals what consume plants. Examples are herbivores like deer and mice.
What are primary or first-order consumers?
Based on our classroom experiment, it seems as though a warm location makes seeds germinate more quickly or slowly?
More quickly
Which of the four stages of a plant life cycle is missing from this list?
- seed, seedling, adult plant
sprout
A small pond.
What is a pothole?
Material that has died and is rotting or breaking down.
What is decay?
This part of the plant supports the plant and grows leaves.
What is the stem?
Leaves use sunlight, chlorophyll, and carbon dioxide to create what food source?
Sugar.
Which radish sprout had stems that were white - the ones in the sunlight or the ones in the dark cupboard?
The ones in the dark cupboard?
A non-peat wetland where groundwater and runoff form. A synonym for marsh.
The level below which the ground is water-soaked, the top most level of the ground water.
What is the water table?
The relationships between what eats what to get energy. Chains move in a line with arrows pointing in the direction the energy flows.
What is a food chain?
Hint: it starts with a C.
carnivorous
Which part of the plant provides food for it?
The leaves.