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1. Plant Animal Energy Sky Thinking needed 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

2. All organisms need food to survive. Animals obtain food, and plants _________ ________.

3. make or produce own food.

4. What property of a dandelion seed makes it easy to disperse by wind?

5. It is light weight.

6. Plants use water and carbon dioxide to produce food. What is the waste product of the food making?

7. Oxygen

8. In Florida, you buy an orange tree and bring it home to plant in New York. Why does it die?

9. It can’t adapt to New York’s cold weather or it needs warm weather to survive.

10. tuber seed flower petal bulb Plants grow from different sources. Which one of these can’t a new plant grow from?

11. Flower petal

12. Summer heat will be here soon. How will a rabbit adapt to this seasonal change?

13. It will shed its fur.

14. What do these have in common? bird’s wings turtle’s feet deer’s legs

15. They help them move to find food.

16. Which one of the organisms in this food chain is the producer?

17. The green plant

18. In this food chain, which one is the decomposer?

19. The fungus

20. Leafhoppers eat potato plants. If the population of leafhopper increases, what will happen to the number of potato plants?

21. It will decrease.

22. heat light sound wind mechanical electrical With a solar powered calculator, one type of energy is changing to another. What is the change?

23. light to electrical

24. heat light sound wind mechanical electrical What type of energy lets you see a yellow daffodil?

25. light

26. heat light sound wind mechanical electrical What type of energy is produced when a bell rings?

27. sound

28. heat light sound wind mechanical electrical Wind turbines are being used more and more to power our homes. Wind turbines change wind energy to __________ energy.

29. electrical

30. heat light sound wind mechanical electrical When you ride a bicycle, what kind of energy is being used?

31. mechanical

32. How long does it take Earth to revolve around the sun?

33. One year

34. Every morning we see the sun rise. Why?

35. We see the sun rise because the Earth rotates on its axis.

36. Where does the puddle of water go that’s on the driveway after a rainstorm?

37. It evaporates into water vapor.

38. When we look at the sky at night, the stars are tiny and the moon is large. Why?

39. The moon is much closer so it only looks big compared to the far away stars. The moon is much smaller than any star.

40. If it is 25°F in Syracuse, what form of precipitation should we expect ?

41. Snow

42. An oak tree produces many acorns, but only a few will grow into new trees. What will happen to the rest?

43. The acorns will be a food source for squirrels and other animals.

44. A class plants 2 bean plants in identical pots, with identical amounts of soil, and waters them the same amount each day.They put one on the windowsill and one in the closet. What is the question the class is trying to answer?

45. How much light does a plant need?How does the amount of light change how a plant grows? Both of these are good answers:

46. Mike found a rock in the woods. What physical properties could Mike tell by looking at it?

47. Shape and color He can’t tell size or weight because he doesn’t have tools out in the woods.

48. Annie takes a wooden handled spoon out of a pan of boiling soup.She notices that on the wood in her hand is comfort-able, but where the metal screws attach to the wood it is too hot for comfort. Why?

49. Metal is a good heat conductor. Wood is not a good heat conductor. Wood is an insulator.

50. There are 4 plants in one pot, and 1 plant in the same size pot. They are on the same windowsill, and get the same water. Why is the plant that is all by itself twice as big as the other plants?