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Plants as Producers

5/17/2017

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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?

Plants get their energy to grow from the sunlight from a process called photosynthesis.
Plants get matter from carbon dioxide by striping CO2 of their carbon, so because it is a carbon-based life form it uses it to grow(adding on to it's carbon supply).
Plants get their food from the dirt (as nutrients)
Plants are called produces because(as opposed to consumers) they don't need to consume(eat) things to gain energy.
Plants would die out therefore affecting the entire food chain.
Animal population would dwindle.
One of the live components in a "plant system" is the plant itself.
Some of the non-living components includes carbon dioxide, sunlight, soil, water.
These components interact when the plant(living) sucks up water(non-living) through it's roots to grow.
CO2 and O2.

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Food - Matter & Energy

5/11/2017

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Tomato soup

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 you need to look at all of the ingredients and nutrition facts before buying/eating it.
Milk, the ingredients that come from animals are: milk(comes from cows).
In tomato soup, tomato that were used to make tomato puree, soy bean oil, [high fructose]corn syrup, and carrot fiber.

Some of the differences are that the pet food offers an analysis, but human food labels don't. Also there are some similarities such as, they have the ingredients.
Pill bug, I think that pill bugs eat vegetation, I think that it gets 1/10 of the plant's calories. I also think that it gets matter and energy from the vegetation.

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?

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Food provides matter and energy.
The pet food and human food can have the same nutrients, they are different because they use different ingredients.
No, because some of those calories are stored as fat, which make the pet heavier and fatter. Pet owners might think this because calories are good(in a medium dose).
The martial in food that helps us repair our bodies is matter(the stuff that makes up the world).
The thing in food that helps us stay warm is energy.
Energy transfers between animals when animals eat the plants. The plants have made calories from the sun, and used up 9/10 of those calories. So when animals eat those plants they absorb 1/10 of the energy that was made from the sun, then the energy decreases by 1/10 as it goes up the food pyramid.

There is 160 calories.
There is All-Natrual Whole Milk.

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Players in an Ecosystem

5/10/2017

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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?

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My food chain works on the energy transfer. What happens is the calories gained be eating animals decrease as it goes up.
The food web can be considered a system because animals eat different animals along the food web.
That would affect all of the food web, what would happen is the animals above it in the food chain would dwindle, and the animals beloit would increase
They get the matter from eating the food below it in the food chain.
They get their energy from the animals/plant below them in the food chain.
I think that the matter not needed is excreted.

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Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

Ducks eat plants and bugs.
Ducks are interacting with each other
Ducks poop and fertilize the plants
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Between living & non-living things

Ducks breathe air (oxygen).
Duck is swimming in the lake
Ducks drink the lake water
Plants grown in the water
Sunlight gives plants energy

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

Fish eat bugs
Fish interact with other fish
Ducks eat the fish
Plants absorb water underwater
The fish can eat smaller fish

Between living & non-living things

Fish get oxygen from the water
Fish poop and fertilize the plants
A plant leaf falls down and decays causing fungus
Fish swim through the water causing ripples in the water

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?

Living things get food, water, oxygen, and a habitat
Shown in last photo
The term ecosystem, is an environment with living and non-living things working together(interacting).
I want to know if there is sky ecosystems
Grass, Deer, Trees, Water, Rocks
Deer eating grass, Deer walking on grass, Deer interacting with other deer

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My First Week in Space

5/3/2017

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Zero gravity
Taking off
Our jobs

One of the things about space is that there is no gravity! Gravity is the invisible force that pulls you to the center of the earth. My support that there is no gravity in space is that space has no density, because of this, space has no gravity. Space is only the empty(emptiness has no density, which exerts no gravity) space between celestial bodies(including Earth). Technically there is gravity in space because all of the celestial bodies exert a certain amount of gravitational force, it affects all within it's vicinity, pulling the objects to it's center/core. But the farther you get away from the celestial body the less the gravity affects you. But the closer you get to another planet that planet's gravity grows, and eventually that planet's gravity wins over the farther planet's gravity because you are closer to that planet.
Taking off was hard, it was hard because we needed to find the escape velocity. Escape velocity is a certain speed that is used to escape a certain field of gravity. Our escape velocity was 11.2 k/s to escape earth's gravity, Earth's gravity is 9.8 meters per second. The takeoff used a lot of fuel, and it was very loud! I used ear plugs!
We had jobs that we were supposed to do. My job is to be a doctor and be a pediatric(I recommend medicines to people). Other people's jobs were the hydroponic gardener(grew plants in water), the fitness trainer(so that we didn't have muscle failure), the cook. We also had a plumber so that we cold get rid of waste and so that he controls our water supply. We also chose a constitutional monarchy(we chose a king that is contained by the constitution. We also had a tailor so that we had new clothes to wear so we didn't grow out of them.

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Pen Pals Daily Life

4/11/2017

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Star Patterns

4/7/2017

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What I Think I Know About Mars

4/5/2017

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What do I already know about Mars?

Has a thin atmosphere
Mars is constantly bombarded by radiation
It can support life
Iron oxide colors Mars
There is not enough oxygen

What do you know about NASA's plans to visit Mars?
How long will the trip take?
What supplies and equipment will the astronauts need to survive there?
What do you think are the risks of traveling to such a distant planet?
What would you want to bring with you?

Some where in the next century NASA will send astronaught
It will take 2.5 years
The equipment would be food, water, and oxygen
Some of the risks are that they would have to keep the asteroids out and to keep the radiation out too. More of the risks are that their bones weaken
Some sort of exercise tool, food, and water. They would need a good suit, and they would need oxygen

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Amir Raja

I am Amir Raja, a doctor from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It would be very important to have a doctor along on the first manned mission to Mars because you would need someone to help you when you have an injury or if we encounter any foreign diseases. I am excited for this trip because it would be exciting to start a foothold for humanity, on mars.

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