1. Name your Control Variables (What will stay the same for each of the three cups)?
2. Name the Independent Variable (What is it that is different for each of the three cups)?
3. Name your Dependent Variable (What is it that you are testing & recording data on?)
4. What data are you collecting to serve as Evidence to show how plants grow in organic material versus inorganic planting material?
5. Why is everyone starting with the same three cups? Why do we need to test so many plants?
6. What sprouts first in a seed: the stem or the root?
7. How do you know? How do the pictures below help explain your answer for #6?
8. Why do you think it goes in that order?

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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?

1. ​The plant gets matter from the sun which they use for energy and growth. 
2. They get it from water, soil, and The sun. The plants also take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen for us to breath.
3. The food that plants eat is sun and they eat it through their leaves. They are able to also take in carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen through the same place.
4. Plants are called producers because they are at the bottom of the food chain and they produce the energy and matter for other animals that eat them. 
5. If plants could not get not get energy that would mean all animals would die. This would happen because plants are the producers of energy for animals so that would means animals could not live from no energy. 
6. The food chain would all slowly die out because they would not be able to to move without the energy provided by plants.
7. In a plant system their are bugs that live in them and also pollinate them. 
8. There is Water, soil, and the sun which are all things that are not living but help a plant big time.
9. Well the plant goes through the cycle of photosynthesis and the plant interacts with all these things in different ways. One way that it interact is the sun gets used in a plant for energy.
10. Carbon Dioxide comes through the leaves and out as Oxygen for us to breath.
    
    

1. There are a lot of living things in the pictures. In the first one their was ducks, grass, and other living bugs in the water. their was also in the background trees and plants. In the second picture there is fish, plants, and it looks like something is growing on the bottom of the water.

2. In the pictures there is probably a lot of other animals under the water. Probably bugs and more animals. Maybe some other things growing on the lake. There are lots of animals and you can probably go on and on about how much are in the lake. 

3. Sometimes they need to eat these things and drink something. They also need them sometimes to grow and stay strong in health. Sometimes they also just want to play around in it or clean itself.

​4. They show how living things interact with other living things and what happens in a ecosystem. It also shows how living things interact with non-living things which is the main part of a ecosystem. It also showed what type of ecosystem the certain animals were in. In the picture the Environment was a lake/body of water.

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1. What was the hardest part of writing your preamble? Explain how you overcame that challenge.
2. What is your favorite part of your preamble? Why is that part powerful and important?
3. What is the purpose of a preamble in a constitution? What does it do?