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?

 10.   Oxygen, a gas in the plant system, goes in and out out of plants, and so does Carbon Dioxide, another gas in the plant system. Water goes into a plant, and it's one of the ingredients that makes glucose, the sugar that plants use for energy and mass, or matter. Carbon Dioxide and a small amount of Oxygen also help make the sugar, and the sun's energy - but that's not matter.

1. Plants get their energy from the sun, use most of it, and store some. The stored energy goes to the animals that eat the plants. If they die from disease, the bacteria that caused the disease get 
2. Plants get their matter from the water, Oxygen and Carbon dioxide they get from the ground and air. They make these ingredients into a sugar called glucose, along with energy from the sun - but that's matter!
3. Plants get their food from nowhere - they don't eat! They make a sugar called glucose out of the sun's energy, carbon dioxide, a tiny bit of Oxygen, and water (it has nutrients). 
4. Plants are called Producers because they produce their own matter (not food). Unlike other organisms, they don't need to hunt eat.
5. If plants didn't have a way to get energy, they would die. Every living organism needs energy to live, breath, work, etc. of anything didn't have a way to get energy, it/they would die.
6. If there were no plants to eat, then the 1st consumers would have no food to eat and would start dying away. After a while they would all be gone, and the 2nd consumers would have nothing to eat, and so on, until almost nothing had anything to eat. I say "almost nothing" because there are some non-plant producers, and they could continue growing and getting eaten. Some plants use trees to grow on.
7. Flowers need pollinators, grasses need to be grazed, some plants need other animals to move them around, lots of plants (roses in particular) need ladybugs to eat the aphids that eat them, and most plants need worms to aerate the soil. Worms also eat and pass dead leaves and compost that plants can use to grow, and as fertilizer. Another living part of the plant system is the plant it's self.
8. Plants need the sun for energy, water for their sugar, and some plants use wind to spread their seeds instead of animals. They also need the soil to hold the water in the ground where they can reach it, carbon dioxide to make photosynthesis, and a little bit of Oxygen that they use. Some plants use walls or fences to grow on.
9. The plants take the water from the soil, use the sun and the Carbon dioxide and Oxygen,  and grow in and on things. The bees get nectar, while also carrying pollen from plant to plant, which helps them reproduce. Ladybugs eat aphids, which are tiny bugs that eat plants. By eating them, the ladybugs feed themselves and save the plants - a win-win situation! Worms fertilize the soil by eating and pooping it. Cows, bunnies, and other grass-eating animals shorten grasses, which is good - it helps it grow.

On the human food label:

1. First, you find the "amount per serving" category, and then you look right below it to "calories"
2. You look in the "% Daily Value*" section
3. Near the bottom, where it says "INGREDIENTS:"

On the pet food label:

1. We can locate the list of ingredients at the top of the label, where it says "INGREDIENTS:"
2. We can find the percentage of different types of matter in the food at the bottom, where it says
   

         "​GUARANTEED ANALYSIS:" 

Answers:

1. I didn't learn anything about food from the labels. I did, however, learn about food from the lesson!
2. The food I chose was tomato soup. The ingredients that came from animals are: there are no ingredients that came from animals.
3. The ingredients that came from plants are: tomato puree and  wheat flour.
4. The similarities I saw between the human food and pet food labels were: they both have lists of ingredients and they both have percents of things.
5. My animal is a worm. It eats the soil, and gets nutrients from it. Then it poops it, and plants use the poop as fertilizer. It gets energy and matter from it's food (the soil).