Water Conservation Contest
This wet substance helps the plants grow or helps the farm animals survive.
What is water
It is the primary source of energy in all ecosystems
What is the Sun?
A general term for anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
This is what a bees home is called
What is a hive
Name 2 ways a drought can affect a farm
crops can’t grow or produce fruit, can't give to animals to survive
True or False: A Pond Ecosystem is a deep body of salt water that has water flowing in and out of it
False-A pond ecosystem is freshwater that is shallow (typically less than 15 ft deep) and is generally still
Name the 3 phases of matter
liquid, gas, solid
Name the 3 kinds of bees that live in a hive
What are worker, drone, and Queen bees
A way to move water to plants, like a watering hose, pipes, or sprinklers
What is an irrigation system?
In the food chain, it is what we call an organism that can make their own food-for example algae, lichen, aquatic plants, and some bacteria)
What are producers?
Fill in the blank: In order for a phase change to occur in matter, heat must be________
Added or subtracted
It's what bees drink from a flower
What is Nectar
Which round of our game was more efficient and why?
Round 2, you had less water leaking out of the system
A biological community of living organisms that live and interact with each other in a specific environment. Hint: It starts with an “E”
What is an ecosystem?
True or False: When we made the Ice Cream, it was a chemical phase change
False-we created a physical phase change (the molecular components of our ingredients and ice/salt remained the same, our experiment simply changed physical properties)
It's what bees turn nectar into, and humans like to eat it
What is Honey
The careful managing of a natural resource to prevent it from disappearing.
What is conservation?
Name the 3 main categories of organisms in the pond food chain
Producer, Consumer, and Decomposer (100 bonus points: what category do humans fall under in the food chain?)
The temperature that water normally freezes at.
What is 32 degrees Fahrenheit
True or False: All honeybees can only sting one time and then it dies
False-the worker bees can only sting once, however the Queen can sting multiple times without dying