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1
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What type of consumers are herbivores?

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Primary

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2
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What gets us energy directly from the sun?

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Plants

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3
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What gets its energy indirectly from the sun?

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Animals

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What is a producer?

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Plant

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5
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Why are plants called producers?

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They produce their own energy from sunlight

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6
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Why do organisms need energy?

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To grow

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What is the plant process of converting sunlight into the type of energy that allows them to grow called?

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Photosynthesis

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8
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What is a consumer? Why?

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Animals because they get their energy from consuming (eating) other things. They take the energy from the animals/plants that they eat

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What is a primary consumer?

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Herbivore

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What is a secondary consumer?

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An animal that eats herbivores. It could be a carnivore or an omnivore

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What is a tertiary consumer?

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The third consumer in a food chain. They eat secondary consumers (could be carnivores or omnivores)

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12
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What order of consumer is a cow?

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Primary

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13
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Give some example of decomposes?

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Worms, fungi, bacteria

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14
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How do decomposers get their energy?

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From eating dead plants and animals

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Why are decomposers thought of as recyclers?

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They release the nutrients in dead organisms back into the soil. Plants then use the nutrients. This means the nutrients are recycled .

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What are nutrients?

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Substances in food (or soil) that living things need to live, grow and to stay healthy

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17
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What are nutrients used for?

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To live

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18
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What makes something a source of energy?

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It is something a living organism gets food from

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19
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Where do humans get their energy from?

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From the food we eat

20
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What does an food chain show?

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A food chain.
Shows the order in which energy goes from the sun to plant to animal

21
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How is energy transferred to producers?

A

Photosynthesis

22
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What are the different types of energy?

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Light
Sound
Heat
Movement

23
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Three examples of light energy?

A

Sun
Lightning
Lamp
Candle

24
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Three examples of sound energy

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Trumpet
Trombone
Candle
Piano
Drums
Bird
Whistling
Thunder

25
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Heat energy- four examples

A

Camp fire
Braai
Oven
Heater
Hairdryer

26
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Where is crude oil found?

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Deep underground

27
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Where does the energy in crude oil come from?

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From small sea creatures and plants that lived millions of years ago

28
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What is a system?

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Something that has multiple parts that work together to do something

29
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Give 2 examples of systems

A

Machines and appliance

30
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What is the energy that goes into a system?

A

Input energy

31
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What is the difference between music and noise?

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Noise is random or unorganised sound. Music is organised sound.

32
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What causes sound from instruments?

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Movement that vibrates air in a flute or material such as guitar strings.

33
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Describe some instruments and what input movement makes the sound.

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Flute = blow to move air through it
Tambourine = shake or hitting it
Guitar = pluck or strum the strings

34
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Describe the differences in energy input
1) percussion instruments
2) wind instruments
3) string instruments

A

1) hitting
2) Blowing
3) plucking (guitar) or rubbing the strings (violin)

35
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How does changing a vibration change the music?

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Changes the frequency of the sound wave. High frequency = high pitch and vice versa.

36
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What does indigenous mean?

A

where it came from originally

37
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What is the input energy for musical instruments?

A

Movement

38
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What is the output energy for musical instruments?

A

Sound

39
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How is it played and what is it made of?
Flute

A

Blow across
Silver plated metal

40
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How is it played and what is it made of?
Kwela flute

A

Blowing
Made of wood

41
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How is it played and what is it made of?
French horn

A

Blow in it
made Of brass

42
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How is it played and what is it made of?
Kudu horn

A

Blow into it
Made of a judo horn

43
Q

How is it played and what is it made of?
Harp

A

Pluck the strings
Made of wood and wire

44
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How is it played and what is it made of?
Krar

A

Bow, strum or pluck the strings
Made of wood

45
Q

How is it played and what is it made of?
Violin

A

Drawing the bow across the string or plucking
Made of wood and nylon

46
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How is it played and what is it made of?
Traditional musical bow

A

By plucking the string or scraping it with a bow or hitting
Made from sticks, calabash, string made from hide

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