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A Quick Look at What I Learn During First and Second Nine Weeks
A Quick Look at What I Learn During First and Second Nine Weeks
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• Some seeds are able to float in water.
Examples-coconut, cranberry, and sweet gum
Water
Wind
petal
bud
leaf
stem
root
Adaptations
• Response to light
A plant needs sunlight or some other light source to survive.
It uses the light for the energy it needs to make its food.
A plant always turns its leaves and bends its stems toward the light.
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hurricanes
Changes Plants that normally
grow there would not
landslides in the
find the conditions
Environments for their growth
volcanoes available anymore.
Life Cycles of
Animals
Beginning With the End in
Mind
Table
mammal young – adult dog, squirrel, human, whale
• Second
amphibian bullet
eggpoint
– young – adult frog, toad, salamander
here
insect egg – larva – pupa – adult butterfly, beetle, housefly,
• Third bullet point mosquito
here egg – young – adult grasshopper, cockroach,
praying mantis
bird egg – young – adult chicken, robin, hawk, duck
Food Chains
Beginning With the End in
Mind
Essential Question: How can
you summarize the
organization of simple food
chains (including the roles of
producers, consumers, and
decomposers)?
It is essential to know When scientists
that all organisms describe the way that
need energy to energy is passed from
survive. Energy gives one organism to
the organism its another they use a
ability to move and model called a food
do the things it needs chain. A food chain
to survive. In most uses arrows to show
habitats, the Sun the direction in which
provides the initial energy is passed and
energy which is usually contains no
passed from plants to more than six
animals. organisms.
Why energy?
An organism
Any green (usually an An organism (for
plant, which animal) that examples, worms,
uses sunlight to obtains its mold, or
make food for energy by mushrooms) that
energy. eating other obtains its energy
Producers are organisms by feeding on and
the first (plants breaking down
organisms listed and/or dead plants and
on a food chain, animals. *often
animals).
understanding not listed in a
that the Sun food chain even
provides the though they are
initial energy for always the final
link.
the plants.
Consumers
Producers Decomposers