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

1. Where do you think the items came from originally?
2. Do you think the items look the same today as they did a month ago?
3. What happened to the matter in each item over the past month?
4. Do you think the items will be the same forever? Why or why not?
5. What do all of the items in the bag have in common?
6. Do you notice any relationships between the items in the bags? They all...
7. What evidence do you have that the items were all once part of a living thing?
8. Another name for "nature's waste" is "organic remains." These are all organisms that are no longer living, or parts of organisms that are discarded, excreted, or no longer needed.  What other examples of organic remains can you think of?
9. What would happen to each item from your bag if it were left outside? What might it look like in 6 months? What would cause it to change?
10. What would eventually happen to the waste MATTER in each type of organic remain?
11. Why isn't the earth just piled up with all the matter from nature's waste?
12. Why could all of the items in the mystery bags be classified as nature's waste?
13. Do you think that all living things generate waste? What makes you think that?

Reflection 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 energy to grow from the sun and the plants also get there energy from the soil because the soil gets nutritions from the bugs that live in the soil and the sunlight from the sun. 
2. Plants get there matter from Co2 (Carbon Dioxide). Plants need there matter in order to live, so it is needed in its live.  
3. Plants get food from the soil and they also get there food from the sun because the sun gives us and plants nutrants in order for plants to be able to grow and have lots of energy!
4. Plants are called producers because they produce there own food. They do this when they use the energy from the sun, Co2, air and water from the soil to produce food, which is called photosynthesis, that is why plants are called producers. 
5. If plants had no way of getting energy then what would happen would be that they would probably die because if they do not have enough energy or none at all then they could not grow and also the animals that eat plants would have nothing to eat which would ruin the entire food chain/food wed.
6. All the animals that eat plants (omnivores and herbivores) would have nothing to eat and then they would die, and the animals that eat them would have nothing to eat so they would die, etc.
7. Some living components of a plant "system" (A plant "system" is everything that a plant needs to survive and everything it produces.) are the sun and the sun is the only living component that a plant "system" needs. The plant need the sun because without it the plant would die because it is not getting enough energy for it to grow. 
8. Some none living components  a plant "system" are the soil, Air (carbon dioxide , oxogen), water. The plant needs the soil because it needs the soil to hold the plant if it get to heavy and also for the roots to spread across pot. The plants need Air ( carbon dioxide, oxogen) to give it enough energy in order for it to be able to grow and have good health. The plant needs the water for it to also get enough energy so the plant can grow or if it does not have enough energy then the plants would die. 
9. I think that the water and the soil inter act when the water is used to get plants energy and nutrison so the plant can grow and live. Also I think that the plant and sun interact with each other when the sun gives sunlight to the plant and the plant uses the sun to grow and live. There are many more but I only listed two of them!
10. The oxygen is being transported in and out of the plants system. When the plant takes in Co2 and oxygen it keeps the Co2 and uses it and transports the oxygen out because it does not need the oxygen. So basically the plant cleans the air.

Between living & non-living things

• The fish interact with the water when they swim in the water
• The smaller fish interact with the water when the swim in the lake. ​
  
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1. Living things get energy to grow/move around, they get nutision for them to grow also, the get matter, food, and air from their ecosystems. 
2. Some evidence that I have for question number one is that humans are living things and somethings that we need ignored to surrvive is food/water, air, energy to move around and grow, and we also need matter in order to live. Alll of these thing are needed ignored for a human to live. 
3. The term Ecosystem mean a community of interacting organisms, that inter act with non-living and living things, and their physical environment
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• Can Ecosystems be anywhere in the world or are they just in one specific place?
• Are there many different species in one Ecosystem?
• Is there a lot going on in just one Ecosystem?
• Are Ecosystems small or big or both?

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• The deer (I think :) ) is interacting with the grass when the deer eats the grass.
• The deer and the water are interacting when the deer drinks the water because it is thursty.
• The trucks of trees are interacting with the grass when they grow in the grass. 
• The leaves are interacting with the trees when they grow out of the tree.
• The deers interact with the grass when they go potty on the grass. 

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• The animals might eat each other.
• Some of the animals might eat the grass.
• The animals will drink the water from the lake/pond.