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Lesson 6: Sunlight on the Menu

4/19/2016

Chicken Fingers

1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
6 skinless, boneless chicken breast
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 quart oil for frying

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

Explain how the matter in each ingredient can be traced back to plants.
Explain how these ingredients can be traced back to the sun.
What MATTER in the food originally came from producers?
What ENERGY in the food originally came from the sun?
How is energy transferred from the sun to ingredients in your favorite foods?

Answers:

The matter in each plant can be traced back into plants because basically everything we eat comes from a plant or comes from something that comes from a plant.
These ingredients can be traced back to the sun from the energy from the sun going into the plant and then the plant gives us energy.
The matter in the food that originally came from producers is the wheat, corn, garlic and olives.
The energy that came from the sun is from the producers to the chicken to us.
The energy is transferred from the sun to the producers, then the chicken eats the producer (plants) and then we eat the chicken to get the energy.

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Lesson 4: Plants as Producers

4/12/2016

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

Plants need energy and matter to grow. Where do plants get their ENERGY?
Where do plants get their MATTER?
Where do plants get their FOOD (be careful - this is a trick question)?
Why are plants called Producers?
What would happen if plants didn't have a way to get energy?
What would happen to animals if there were no plants to eat?
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.)
What are some of the NON-LIVING components of a plant "system"?
In what ways do the components of the system interact?
What matter is transported in and out of the plant system?

Answers:

Plants get their energy from the sun and carbon dioxide. These things make the plants grow.
Plants get there matter from the same place as in said in # 1, carbon dioxide and the sun .
Plants get there food from the same place as i said in #1, the sun and carbon dioxide.
Plants are called producers because when the sun shines on them it makes them grow. Unlike producers consumers grow of of plants or animals around them
If plants did not have a way to get energy they would probably shrivel up and die because the energy is what they need to grow and keep themselves healthy.
If there were not plants to eat the herbivores would become extinct because they would die of hunger, the omnivores would probably turn into carnivores, and the carnivores would be perfectly fine because they only eat other animals.
Some living components of a plants system are the leaves because those grow with the plants .
Some non-living components of a plants system are the dirt,water,oxygen,and carbon-dioxide.
These components interact with eachother i some ways. For example, water interacts with the soil/dirt and the plant because when the water soaks in the soil the nutrients in the soil come out and they help the plant grow to be strong. .
The matter that is transported in and out of the plant system is oxygen.

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Lesson 3: Players in an Ecosystem

4/6/2016

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Producers start the food chain because it gets energy from the sun.

Consumers eat producers and other consumers.

Primary consumers eat the secondary consumers

Primary consumers eat the producers

Primary consumers are herbivores

secondary consumers are carnivores

Cows are consumers and herbivores.
Sheep are consumers and herbivores.
Deers are consumers and herbivores.
Rabbits are consumers and herbivores.
Grasshoppers are consumers and herbivores.
Lions are consumers and carnivores.
Wolves are consumers and carnivores.
Snakes are consumers and carnivores.
Hawks are consumers and carnivores.
Praying mantis are consumers and carnivores.
Spiders and consumers and carnivores.
Pigs are consumers and omnivores.
Bear are consumers and omnivores.
Chipmunk are consumers and omnivores.
Humans are consumers and omnivores.

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

Choose one of your Food Chains that you created and explain how it works.
Can a Food Web be considered a "system"? Why or why not?
What happens if a plant or animal all of a sudden disappears from the food web?
Using this food chain, "sunlight to apple to worm to bird to cat," How do organisms in this food chain get the matter they need for body repair and growth?
Using the same food chain in #4, How do organisms in that food chain get the energy they need for body warmth and motion?
What do you think happens to the matter that is NOT used by the organisms in a food chain or food web? Is it wasted or does something else happen?

Answers:

The sun shines on the grass to make the grass grow. The elephants eat the grass, and lions eat elephants.
That means that the animal that just disappeared ran out of food to eat. It is kind of sad that some animals can run out food and become extinct.
If that were to happen whatever ate that plant would die and whatever ate that animal as the only thing it ate would die and what ever ate that would die too.
They eat what they are supposed to eat.For example, in this food chain "sunlight to apple to worm to bird to cat," The apple consumes the sunlight, then the bird comes and eats the apple and finally the cat eats the bird and in those animals there is tones of energy that converts into the things that you need.
They do ths same thing that was listed in problem # 4 they all eat what they are supposed to eat and in that animal there is energy that helps whatever is eating that creat body warmth and motion.
I think the matter that is not used gets eaten by another animal because if the animal did not use it it might be useful to another animal .

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Lesson 2: Food - Matter & Energy

4/4/2016

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Organism we saw:

Plants:

Grass
Trees
Bushes
Flowers

Plants need:

Carbon dioxide
Water
Sunlight
Soil nutrients
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Potassium - Helps them grow

Were do they get these things:

From their roots
Oxygen comes from the air
Light comes from lights inside or sunlight

Energy is measured in calories.

Animals:

Squirrels - Food, Water
Worms
Centipede
Pill-Bugs
People
Birds

Animals need:

Water
Oxygen
Shelter/Warmth
Food - Carbon
Sleep

Were do they get these things:

Ponds, lakes, rivers, fountains, and puddles
Carnivores get it from other animals
Herbivores get it from plants
Omnivores get it from both

Where do we get our energy from?:

Food - Without sleep we can not convert it into energy
Our matter comes from food too

On the human food label:

How do we find the energy (calories) per serving?
How do we find the matter (carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals)?
Where can we locate the list of ingredients?

On the pet food label:

Where can we locate the list of ingredients?
How do we find the percentage of different types of matter in the food?

Human food label:

You can find the amount of energy per serving under the amount per severing. The amount of energy you get from your food is the amount of calories that are in the food.
You can found the matter under the calories where the daily values are listed.
You can find the list of ingredients under all of the nutrition facts that are listed.

The pet food label:

You can find the list of ingredients on the top of the label unlike most human labels where the ingredients are listed on the bottom.
You can find the percentages of the different types of matter under the ingredients and they are list in order of what has the most to what has the least.

Answer the following questions while analyzing the Nutrition Labels:

As a result of looking at food labels, what did you learn about food?
Look at the ingredients of one human food label. Write down the food name. What ingredients came from animals?
What ingredients in the above food label came from plants?
What similarities and differences did you notice between the human food and pet food labels you looked at?
Choose an animal/insect from the ecosystem walk. What do you think it eats? Explain what you think it gets from its food.

Answers:

I learned that When you look at a food label you see that there are many things on it that you never thought there was in that food. For example, I never knew there was sugar in tomato soup.
The milk label. The fat the protein and the sodium comes from the actual cow itself. To me it is weird how half of the things on the label don't even come from the cow.
The potassium comes from a plant the sugar comes from a plant and I think that is all that comes from plants on that nutrition label.
I noticed that the pet food has mostly food from animals and some of the food in that nutrition label is from human food like brown rice. Unlike dog food human food has a lot of ingredients that come from plants. They both have fats, vitamins, and proteins in them.
Worms eat the nutrients in the soil, the remains of dead animals, and bacteria under the ground. I think they get matter, warmth, and energy.

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

What does food provide to animals, including humans?
Do the pet food and human food have the same nutrients? In what ways are they different?
Does a higher calorie count mean a food is better for pets to eat? What makes pet owners think that?
What is it in food that helps us repair our bodies and grow?
What in food helps us move and stay warm?
In what way does energy transfer when animals eat food?
Look at the nutrition label below for milk. How much energy is in the food?
What matter is in the food?

Answers:

Food provides energy, matter, and warmth to both humans and animals. I think the 3 things it provides are really important because if we did not have those things we would not grow,stay warm, or have energy.
Human food and animal food do have the same nutrients other wise nothing would be able to live. They are different in some ways to because humans probably need a little more protein and vitamins than animals.
Yes, a higher calorie count means there is more energy in it. The pet owners probably think that way because they know that it is transferred into many things for your pet to survive.
The thing in our bodies that helps us grown and repair our bodies is ENERGY. The energy helps us grow, and repair our bodies.
like I said the ENERGY in food helps us move and stay warm.
It does the same things as humans do it turns into warmth,helps us move, repair there bodies, and grow.
There is 160 per cup. If you think about it that is not that much.
Everything in this food is matter because matter is a liquid,gas, or solid.