Plants & Animals Grade 3
Ecosystems Grade 6
Plants & Animals Grade 6
100

The part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, bringing water and nutrients to the rest of the plant.

What are roots?

100

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

What is an ecosystem?

100

Needs carbon dioxide to survive

What are plants?

200

The part of a plant that produces seeds

What is the flower?

200

The part of the ecosystem that include plants, animals, and micro organisms

What are the biotic components?

200

Sage, sweetgrass, cedar and tobacco are sacred plants to these groups of people.

Who are the First Nations and Metis people?

400

a living thing that can function on its own

What is an organism?

400

This ecosystem is characterized by land that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, and supports plants and animals adapted to these wet conditions

What are the wetlands?

400

Ears, eyes, nose, tongue, and skin are examples of these types of organs.

What is sensory organs?

400

A change in the environment that an organism can detect and respond to. Example: 

  •  A hot stove causes you to pull your hand away. 

What is a stimuli?

400

This type of ecosystem is a harsh, dry environment characterized by low precipitation, extreme temperatures, and limited vegetation

What is the desert?

400

The part in plants that collects light needed for photosynthesis.

What is chlorophyll?

500

An organism that breaks down or eats decaying material for its energy source

What is a decomposer?

500

The non-living parts of an ecosystem, providing the physical and chemical conditions that support life

What are the Abiotic components?

500

These 2 organisms use oxygen from photosynthesis for respiration

What are plants and animals?

500

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water

What is photosynthesis?

500

Three of the 5 abiotic components of the ecosystem include

What is energy from the sun, water, soil, air, and temperature?

500

Sensory organs in animals help meet animals' needs by detecting these things. (Name 3)

What is food, other animals, danger, temperature?