Chapters 7-8

Question 1

A group of plants and animals that depend on each other to live

Answer 1

Community

Question 2

What is a community?

Answer 2

A group of plants and animals that depend on each other.

Question 3

What kind of community is in the pond?

Answer 3

A freshwater community

Question 4

Why do plants grow easily around the pond?

Answer 4

There are many minerals in the mud to nourish the plants

Question 5

What does it mean to make a comparison?

Answer 5

To discover how things are different and how they are alike

Question 6

What plants grow in the pond and the ocean?

Answer 6

Algae

Question 7

What is dissolved in the water that fish need to breathe?

Answer 7

Oxygen

Question 8

What do fish use to breathe?

Answer 8

Gills

Question 9

How do fish and plants of the pond help each other?

Answer 9

The plants release oxygen for the plants to breathe and the fish release carbon dioxide for the plants

Question 10

What is God’s way of making an animal blend in with its surroundings

Answer 10

Camouflage

Question 11

How does a muskrat steer in the water?

Answer 11

With its tail

Question 12

How long can a muskrat hold its breath?

Answer 12

5 minutes

Question 13

What is the first stage of growth for an amphibian?

Answer 13

Egg

Question 14

Where is the egg laid?

Answer 14

In a jelly like coating

Question 15

What is the second stage of growth after the egg hatches?

Answer 15

Tadpole

Question 16

Where does the tadpole live?

Answer 16

In the water

Question 17

How is the tadpole able to get the oxygen it needs to live?

Answer 17

It has gills

Question 18

When can a tadpole live on land?

Answer 18

When they begin breathing with lungs

Question 19

When is a tadpole frog considered an adult frog?

Answer 19

When there is no tail left at all

Question 20

What is the salamander tadpole also called?

Answer 20

Larva

Question 21

What can the salamander do if it loses its tail or leg?

Answer 21

It can grow another one

Question 22

Why must the salad sander live in a moist, shady place?

Answer 22

They get the water they need through their skin. If their skin dries out they die.

Question 23

What kind of bird drills small holes in the bark of trees to get sweet sap to drink?

Answer 23

sapsucker

Question 24

What kind of plants does the forest community depend on?

Answer 24

trees

Question 25

How does the sapsucker depend upon trees?

Answer 25

it sucks the sap out of the tree

Question 26

How has God designed the balance in the forest community?

Answer 26

Birds eat the insects. Without the birds to eat the insects, the insects would destroy the trees and other plant life of the forest. The birds benefit from the trees.

Question 27

What kind of life begins a food chain?

Answer 27

a green plant

Question 28

What kinds of trees do squirrels and chipmunks live around?

Answer 28

hickory and oak

Question 29

How does a the porcupine benefit from trees?

Answer 29

It eats the twigs, leaves, barks, and roots

Question 30

How does a beaver benefit from trees?

Answer 30

it cuts down trees to use for food and building its home

Question 31

Describe a food chain involving mice

Answer 31

a mouse nibbles on seeds, an owl eats the mouse

Question 32

Describe a food chain involving rabbits

Answer 32

a rabbit eats green plants on the floor of the forest. A fox eats the rabbit

Question 33

Describe a food chain involving insects

Answer 33

insects eat plants, birds eat the insects, an opossum eats the baby bird, a fox may eat the opossum

Question 34

What do the tiniest plants of the forest grow from?

Answer 34

spores that float through the air

Question 35

How are fungi and bacteria helpful for the forest?

Answer 35

They work together to decay dead leaves.

Question 36

Give an example of a kind of fungus

Answer 36

mushrooms and toadstools

Question 37

What are the largest plants of the forest and the world?

Answer 37

trees

Question 38

What are the dark rings of wood beginning at the center of a tree trunk?

Answer 38

heartwood

Question 39

What are the lighter rings of the tree called and what do they do?

Answer 39

sapwood; they carry the sap from the roots to the leaves

Question 40

What does the bark on a tree do?

Answer 40

protect the sapwood

Question 41

How can you tell the age of a tree?

Answer 41

Count the annual rings or circles at the end of the trunk. Each year stands for one years growth.

Question 42

List some animals that live in or on trees

Answer 42

birds, owls, squirrels, racoons

Question 43

the branches and leaves

Answer 43

crown

Question 44

Which part of the tree makes food for the rest of the tree?

Answer 44

leaves

Question 45

What is the stem of the tree?

Answer 45

trunk

Question 46

What takes in water and minerals from the soil?

Answer 46

roots

Question 47

What holds the tree in the ground?

Answer 47

roots

Question 48

a series of plants and animals, each depending upon the next member in the series for food.

Answer 48

food chain

Question 49

plants containing no chlorophyll which must get their food from other plants or animals

Answer 49

fungi and bacteria

Question 50

the circles in the wood of a tree trunk. Each circle stands for a year's growth.

Answer 50

annual rings

Question 51

What is the substance from the soil that keeps leaves green

Answer 51

nitrogen

Question 52

What is the ability to blend in with surroundings called?

Answer 52

camouflage

Question 53

What does frost do to leaves?

Answer 53

kills them and makes them brown?