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Players in an Ecosystem

4/23/2018

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?

The sun provides the grass with energy and then the Antelope eats the grass. After that, the Wolf eats the Antelope.
Yes, because it is a system of organisms that help each other survive.
Then it would affect the rest of the food web, by making one thing starve because they don't have the food they need and that makes the whole food chain disappear slowly.
They get the matter by eating each other, the Apple gets the matter from the glucose it makes and the worm gets it by eating the apple and the cat and bird get their matter by eating each other.
The apple gets it's Energy from the sun, The worm gets it's energy from the apple. The bird gets it's energy from he worm and the cat gets its energy from the bird.
I think it is turned into fat and is stored in the body.

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Food- Matter & energy

4/16/2018

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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?

You look at how many calories there are in the food.
You look at how many carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals there are in the food.
You look at the bottom of the food label to find 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?

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.

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?

On the top of the food label.
Next to each of the ingredients under Guaranteed Analysis.

Answers:

I learned that some food is a good source of energy, and some food is a good source of energy.
Tomato soup, none of the ingredients are from animals.
Tomato paste, Corn syrup, soybean oil, carrot fiber, and citric acid.
They both have the percentage of different foods (Matter & energy) in the food. The differences are that the dog food and the human food labels are set up differently.
An ant eats fungus, and I think it gets that from the bottom of the trees. I also saw a squirrel and I think it eats acorns, I think it gets it's food from oak trees. I also saw a blue jay, I think it eats berries, I think it gets them from bushes and humans.

Energy, that helps you to move and do things during the day. You also get Matter which helps us grow and make body repairs.
They have different nutrients. Some animals need different nutrients then humans do. They both have vitamins but they have different kinds of matter and energy.
Yes it is better if pet owners want their pet to have lots of energy and they want it to get a little bigger, but it is not if they don't want there pet to have that stuff.
Protein.
The matter/calories.
When an animal eats food that has energy in it then it processes the food and it gets energy from the food. (The energy comes from the sun.)
160 grams.
There is protein, sugars, vitamin A and C, iron, and calcium.

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What is an ecosystem?

4/10/2018

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BIG IDEA 1:
An ecosystem is a system of organisms that interact with each other and with the non-living parts of their environment.

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

The ducks eat plants
the ducks quack at each other to communicate
the ducks eat bugs
ducks eat fish

Between living & non-living things

The ducks drink water
the plants absorb water
the ducks and plants breath air
the ducks swim in water
the Trees make the oxygen for the plants and fish to breath

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

The fish is using the plant to camouflage
the fish eat the plant
the fish eat other fish
the fish eat algae

Between living & non-living things

The fish absorb the water
the plant absorb the water
the plants eat the dirt
the fish swim in the water

Reflection/Synthesis questions:

What other kinds of living things (organisms) do you see in either picture?
What other living things might be here, even if you can't see them in the photos?
Why might living things in these photos interact with each other?
Read the BIG IDEA above. How do these pictures depict an ecosystem?

In the first picture there was grass that I didn't think were really part of that ecosystem. In the 2nd picture I didn't find anything that wasn't in the ecosystem.
There might be insects, microscopic bugs and dirt in the first picture. They might be crawling in the grass or trees in the back round.In the second picture there might be microscopic bugs and sea insects in the sea dirt.
So that they can get food, or if they need help or maybe even for food.
They show that the living and non-living help each other in their own ways. Which is pretty much what an ecosystem is.

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 do living things get from their ecosystems?
What evidence do you have to support your answer to Question 1?
What does the term ecosystem mean, based on your experience in this lesson? (Don't use the definition from the BIG IDEA here. Put it into your own words.)
Brainstorm at least one question you have about Ecosystems that you hope you learn from this unit.
Look at the image below that shows a portion of a forest ecosystem. Name at least five components (living or non-living things) of the ecosystem that you can either observe directly or infer.
What are three (or more) interactions that might occur in this portion of the forest ecosystem?

I already have this above
I already have this above
An ecosystem is a place were living and Non-living things interact with each other.
Can 2 of the same type of animals live in different ecosystems?
A deer drinks water from the stream. The grass uses the water and the soil. The deer eats the grass. The deer also eat leaves. The leaves get their water from the river 2.
The deer eat fish, the deer help each other, and the absorb water.

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Skills21 - Superhero Rehabilitation Program

4/9/2018

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Players in an Ecosystem

Reflect & Synthesize

Food- Matter & energy

What is an ecosystem?

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

Between living & non-living things

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

Between living & non-living things

Reflection/Synthesis questions:

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

Skills21 - Superhero Rehabilitation Program

Kya

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Players in an Ecosystem

Reflect & Synthesize

Food- Matter & energy

What is an ecosystem?

​Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things​

​Between living & non-living things

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things ​

Between living & non-living things ​

Reflection/Synthesis questions:​

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

Skills21 - Superhero Rehabilitation Program

Kya

Archives

Categories

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

Between living & non-living things

Within a system of living things

Between living & non-living things

Reflection/Synthesis questions:

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