Chapter 8 - Online Cell Exploration

Cells Alive!!!

Start off your Online Exploration by watching these 2 videos!

1.

a.  _____ are the smallest structural and functional units of ALL living things.

b. Ponder: What would happen if a cell lost its cell membrane?

c. True/False: DNA is the genetic instructions found in every cell.

d. _________ is the watery substance that contains all the cells structures.

2.
a. Why is it a good idea to cover one's nose while sneezing?

b. About how many cells does your body have?

3. Watch the video and rank in order from smallest to largest: -

- chromosome,

- an ant, 

- largest bacteria, 

- red blood cell, 

- amoeba, 

- paramecium, 

- human egg, 

- chicken egg, 

- 1 square inch, 

- skin cell, 

- white blood cell,

- DNA, 

- water molecule

Ecology Online Exploration

1. Watch the brainpop video: https://www.brainpop.com/science/ecologyandbehavior/foodchains/

a. Play the food chain game: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm
b. Draw one of them and label: producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, decomposer 

2. Go to the website and answer the following questions:  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/producersconsumers.htm

a. What is the difference between a producer and a consumer?

b. Give three examples of each: herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore.

c. What are decomposers?  What would the environment look like if we had no decomposers?

3.  Play this game!  https://ecokids.ca/swf-files/gamesPage/chain_reaction.swf

Copy the NORTHERN Food Chain and the FOREST Food Chain into your notebooks and answer the following questions: a. What happens if you take the frog out of the FOREST Food Chain?

                                       b. What happens if you take the fish out of the NORTHERN Food Chain?

4.  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/foodchain.htm

a. Draw a picture of "photosynthesis."

5. http://www.goldridge08.com/1games/foodchain.swf

a. What does a food chain show?

b. What is the purpose of an arrow in the food chain?

c. Green plants are called _________ because they make their own ____.

d. Give three examples of a consumer.

e. If most food chains begin with green plants, where do they get their energy from?

f. What makes the bird both a predator and prey at the same time?

6. http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html

7. http://interactivesites.weebly.com/animal-classification.html

8. https://www.quia.com/jg/514533.html

9. https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/lsps07.sci.life.eco.oceanfoodweb/antarctic-food-web-game/#.Wx76U-4vypo