Lesson 4: Plants as Producers

Questions

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?
    

Answers
1. Plants get there energy from the sun and carbon dioxide.
2. Plants get there mater from the sun so they can turn it in to sugar.
3. They make there own food for them self.
4. Plants are producers because they make there own food for them self.
5. The plants would shrivel up and die.
6. The animals will die and then the will turn in to fertilizer and make more more plants grow
7. One thing is leaves, stem, and roots.
8. One thing is a fallen leaves.
9. The water the sun the wind and the animals.
10. One thing is water, sun light, oxygen.