Earthworks

Question 0

Food Web?

Answer 0

Several food chains connected together that begin with the sun

Question 1

Food chain?

Answer 1

Energy from food that is passed from organisim to another

Question 2

Consumer?

Answer 2

A living thing that gets energy from eating plants and animals

Question 3

Carnivore?

Answer 3

Consumer that only eats animals such as hawk

Question 4

Herbivore?

Answer 4

Consumer that only eats plants such as a giraffe

Question 5

Omnivore?

Answer 5

Consumer that eats both plants and animals such as a bear

Question 6

Producer?

Answer 6

A plant that gets energy from the sun

Question 7

Decomposer?

Answer 7

An organisim that eats dead plant and animal matter and recycles it back into the earth

Question 8

Predator?

Answer 8

Animal that hunts and eats other animals

Question 9

Prey?

Answer 9

Animals that are hunted or are being hunted

Question 10

Water cycle?

Answer 10

The recycling of water

Question 11

Precipitation?

Answer 11

Water falling to the earths surface such as rain, sleet, snow, or hail

Question 12

Hydrosphere?

Answer 12

All the water on, above, and below the earth, in the atmosphere

Question 13

Lithosphere?

Answer 13

Outer crust of the earth and ocean floor

Question 14

Biosphere?

Answer 14

All the plants and animals on earth (Bio-life sphere-circle)

Question 15

Community?

Answer 15

Where different groups interact with each other

Question 16

Habitat?

Answer 16

The home of a plant or animal

Question 17

Air cycle?

Answer 17

Exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants animals

Question 18

Ecosystem?

Answer 18

Relationship between living and non-living things

Question 19

Organisim?

Answer 19

Living thing

Question 20

What is the difference between renewable resources and non-renewable resources?

Answer 20

Renewable- resources that don’t get used up

Non-renewable- resources that get used faster than the earth can produce

Question 21

What are some examples of fossil fuels?

Answer 21

Coal, oil, natural gas

Question 22

Why is it important to recycle?

Answer 22

• we don’t run out of resources

- don’t pollute the earth

Question 23

What are different ways people pollute the earth?

Answer 23

Smog, water, littering, traffic, landfills

Question 24

Why are decomposers important in the food chain

Answer 24

They eat dead plants and animals and recycle it back into the earth

Question 25

Name your animal and one you learned about it

Answer 25

Belted Kingfisher, it is the only kingfisher in the U.S

Question 26

Describe one thing you learned at earthworks that you didn’t know before the field trip

Answer 26

That a natural disaster is good because it can start up again

Question 27

Why did we do the water recycling activity? What did we learn?

Answer 27

To watch the water cycle in progress