Ecosystems

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Ecosystems
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ENGAGE Day 1
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What do you know about ecosystems?

• Working with your group, look through the pages
  in the book and make a list of words you think go
  with ECOSYSTEMS
• When you have finished your list, go to the
  computer
• Go to www.wordle.net
• Click on create your own
• The typist types in your groups words
• Then click go and then print

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EXPLORE Day 2
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Outside

• What living things do you see in our habitat?
• What non-living things do you see?
• What is the role of the tree in our habitat?
• What would our habitat be like without it?

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Interactive Habitat Website

• Discovery Education Player

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EXPLAIN Day 3
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• What are some of the needs of plants and animals
  to be able to survive and reproduce in a
  particular (certain) habitat
• Food, water, air, space, protection, etc.

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Real World Science Ecosystems and Biomes (17 min)
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Thrive (do well)/ Become Weak or Ill Perish
(Die)/ Not be Affected
Green Yellow Red Blue Purple

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• JASON Digital Lab Earth Systems Food Web

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Magic School Bus

• Dries Up
• In the Rainforest

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An ecosystem is made up of all the living and
nonliving things in a particular area. The
_________ in an ecosystem interact with one
another as well as with their nonliving
environment.

1. environment
2. organisms
3. ecosystem

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All living things need air, _____, water,
shelter, and space.

1. entertainment
2. cars
3. food

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Think about a deer and a mouse. Both are living
things. But a deer is bigger and needs _________
air, food, water, and space than a mouse.

1. less
2. The same
3. more

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Ecosystems sometimes change. Changes to an
ecosystem can sometimes be helpful, but also
harmful to the __________ in the ecosystem.

1. plants
2. animals
3. All of the above

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Changes to an ecosystem may make it more
difficult for an organism to find ______ or to
meet any of its other basic needs.

1. food
2. air
3. a friend

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Or, the organism may have to leave and _______ to
another area.

1. stay
2. move
3. None of the above

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If it cannot adapt to the new conditions or move
to a new place, the organism will probably
_________.

1. Stay the same
2. perish
3. thrive

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When changes to an ecosystem take place slowly,
plants and animals have _____ to adjust to these
changes.

1. time
2. No time

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When changes happen quickly, many plants and
animals are not able to adapt. For example, if it
starts raining less frequently in an area,
animals many not have enough ________ to drink.

1. juice
2. Water
3. soda

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These animals can no longer meet their basic
_______.

1. wants
2. needs

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This will also affect _______ organisms in the
area, such as those who eat or are eaten by those
animals.

1. zero
2. other