Plants As Producers

Reflection/Synthesis:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

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.Well plants get their energy from lots of places, they include water soil and the sun

2.Plants get their matter from water and the sun and nutrients. and when they combine all of those it turns into soil.

3.First evolve plants don't get food they just get fertilizer and water and stuff so they don't need food

4.Becasue animals use plants for energy and plants make energy

5.Then plants would die of starvation of energy

​6.Well then the whole animal chain would collapse because there would be no glucose from plants
7. Nothing.

​8. Well it needs carbon dioxide water dire and light. The things it produces are oxygen and glucose.

9. Well the soil absorbs the the  water for the plant.

10.Well when the sun goes into the plant the plant uses the energy for glucose and when the plant gets eaten the animal gets the glucose.

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