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

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?

Answers:

1. . The plants are all in soil.
2. . They are in different types of soil.
3. . How much the plants grew in centimeters.
4. . The soil type things grew well and we record data in measurements
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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.

1. Choose one of your Food Chains that you created and explain how it works.
2. Can a Food Web be considered a "system"? Why or why not?
3. What happens if a plant or animal all of a sudden disappears from the food web?
4. 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?
5. Using the same food chain in #4, How do organisms in that food chain get the energy they need for body warmth and motion?
6. 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?

Answers:

1. . I had House Cat, Salamander, Daddy Longlegs. The cat eats the salamander which eats the daddy Longlegs
2. . Yes. It is a system because it is a bunch of things happening to effect each other and it keeps going  whenever something gets eaten. 
3. . If something disappears from a food web it effects the whole food web because whatever ate the thing that disappears now has less to eat which means less energy goes through the food chain, making it harder for animals to survive.
4. . They get the matter from the stuff they eat. So the worm gets a piece of apples matter and the bird gets the matter by eating the worm and so on.
5. . The sun gives energy to the apple. Then,the worm eats the apple and gets some of that energy from the sun. The energy from the sun keeps getting transferred every time one of the organisms gets eaten. 
6. . The extra matter is stored in there bodies.

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

1. I see plants, fish, ducks, and bugs.

2. Microscopic organisms.

3. They interact to survive. The ducks have to eat the bugs and plants to live.

​4. They show living and non-living things interacting to survive.

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

1. What do living things get from their ecosystems?
2. What evidence do you have to support your answer to Question 1?
3. 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.)
4. Brainstorm at least one question you have about Ecosystems that you hope you learn from this unit.
5. 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. 
6. What are three (or more) interactions that might occur in this portion of the forest ecosystem?

Answers:

1. .
2. .I answered 1 and 2 above
3. .Is a system of living and non-living things interacting
4. . How do animals adapt to certain ecosystems
5. . Deer,grass, rocks, trees, water.
6. . Fish in the pond, bugs in the trees, plants in the water.