Plants as Producers

Reflection Questions:

1. Plants need energy and matter to grow. Where do plants get their ENERGY?
2. Where do plants get their MATTER?
3. Where do plants get their FOOD (be careful - this is a trick question)?
4. Why are plants called Producers?
5. What would happen if plants didn't have a way to get energy?
6. What would happen to animals if there were no plants to eat?
7. What are some of the LIVING components of a plant "system"? (A plant "system" is everything that a plant needs to survive and everything it produces.)
8. What are some of the NON-LIVING components of a plant "system"?
9. In what ways do the components of the system interact?
10. What matter is transported in and out of the plant system?

Answers:

1. ​Plants get their energy from the sun to absorb what they need as food. They also need carbon dioxide to take in and produce the oxygen out. They need soil that is moist from rain or watering so they can keep alive and the soil help it grow. These all basically come naturally to the plant(s).
2. Plants get their matter from the water and from the soil. That helps the plants consume into their roots, the roots try to spread firmly around as much space as possible.
3. Plants get their food from vitamins and soil too, this is because it can take in that much nutrients to keep it alive. They also need water.
4. Plants are called producers because they absorb energy and sunlight from the sun to give energy to the consumers. They produce energy for the consumers.
5. If the plant has had no energy they would use up all their leftover energy and use that all up. Once they use that up they grow weak and soon die.
6. The whole food chain of the animals cycle would die because then the herbavors would die leaving the carnavors no food.
7. A plant needs the sun to gain light and nutrients and even warmth, since the plants make sugar that gives its energy too, carbon dioxide to breathe, and photosynthesis is food. Chlorophyll makes food from the carbon dioxide that the plant breathes in. That all ties up to living components.
8. Soil, air, and water. The plant only keeps the plant moist, the air just gives it its carbon dioxide and releases oxygen for us to breathe and the soil helps the plant stay firm and lets its roots spread as wide as possible.
   
9. They interact by using each other to make a cycle like a food chain. The plants used all of these things to grow and live so they all interact in some way. 
   
10.  The matter that is transported in and out is carbon dioxide and oxygen. This is because the plant need the carbon dioxide to breathe in for it's leaves and releases oxygen to help us breathe.

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