Thursday, May 18, 2023

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







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Sunday, May 7, 2023

Ecology Online Exploration

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 


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?


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?


a. Draw a picture of "photosynthesis."


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?
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