- 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 energy and matter from both the sun and soil, sometimes the plants get water from the soil because when it rains and the plant's roots gather the water and takes it in.
- Plants get matter from soil's nutrients and get matter from rain sometimes.
- Plants get there food from soil and the sun because the sun gives rays which help the plant grow and soil has nutrients.
- They give off energy to other animals that eat the plant, which gives off when it gathers and produces to others.
- Then animals or other species will have to find other producers.
- Some would die and the ecosystem would fall apart.
- There is soil, sun, and carbon dioxide which helps the plant live and when it breathes in carbon dioxide, oxygen is let out.
- There is soil, sun, carbon dioxide, are in the plant for non living.
- Carbon dioxide goes into the plants which the plant releases oxygen, soil is around the plant and the roots soak in the nutrients.
- Carbon dioxide goes in the plant and the plant breathes it in and once it is grown, the plant releases oxygen.