Plant Structures and Functions
Plant Structures and Functions
Food Webs/Chains
Food Webs/Chains
100
What are the function of the roots?
What is to anchor the roots to the soil
What is to absorb water and nutrients
100
What are the 4 things that plants need to survive?
What is water, air, sunlight and nutrients
100
What can be found in an ecosystem?
What is all of the living and nonliving things in a community.
100
Describe the relationship between the rabbit and hawk using vocab words.
What is the rabbit is the prey and the fox is the predator
200
Are plants a producer, consumer or decomposer?
What is a producer (makes their own energy!)
200
The leaves of a plant create _______
What is food
200
What is the source of all energy in the ecosystem?
What is the sun
200
What is an organism that is not native to an ecosystem and disrupts the balance?
What is an invasive species.
300
How are seeds spread? What is this called?
What is seed dispersal
What is by animals, air, water, humans
300
What are the functions of the stem?
What is to support the plant
What is to transport water and nutrients to the rest of the plant (leaves and flower)
300
The frog is an invasive species. How does it impact the ecosystem?
What is creates competition with the rat for resources.
What is will reduce the grasshopper, dragonfly and butterfly population.
What is gives food to the eagle and python, increasing their population.
300
If the lion died, what would happen to the animals in the ecosystem?
What is the fox, wildcat and goat population with increase because they do not have a predator.
There will be an increase in competition.
400
What type of air do plants take IN?
What is carbon dioxide
400
What type of air do plants release (give OUT)?
What is oxygen
400
What do the arrows in a food web/chain represent?
What is the transfer of energy
400
If the wildcat died, what would happen to the animals in the ecosystem?
The rabbit and rat population would increase due to no predator.
The lion population might decrease because it has less prey, but it can still eat the fox and the goat.
There would be an increase in competition.
500
Why is pollination important for plants?
What is it allows animals to bring pollen from one plant to another to reproduce and make more plants!
500
What is the function of the flower?
What is to make seeds for reproduction
500
How are food chains organized?
What is from a lower organism (plants) to a higher organism
500
Why are decomposers important parts of an ecosystem?
What is decomposers break down dead plants and animals so they do not take up space.
What is decomposers recycle the dead and give soil nutrients for plants.