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5th Grade. Natural Science The Biosphere
Essential Questions. Can you...
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Explain the importance of biodiversity for our planet?
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Trace the path of energy from the sun through food chains?
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Identify the roles of various organisms in a food web?
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Describe how food webs can be affected by internal and external factors?
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Show how humans play a role in habitat destruction and how this relates to species extinction?
Vocabulary words...
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Biosphere: biodiversity
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Extinction: deforestation, global warming, greenhouse gases, habitat destruction, loss, oil spill, overfishing, overhunting, pollution
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Food chain and Food web: consumer, decomposer, energy, food web, primary, producer, scavenger, secondary, tertiary
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Protection: citizen, endangered, government, national park, nature reserve, responsible
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Relationships: affect, compete / competition, cooperate / cooperation, host, parasite / parasitism, predation / predator, prey
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The wondrous workings of planet Earth : understanding our world and its ecosystems
5 Ciencias Naturales
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One plastic bag : Isatou Ceesay and the recycling women of the Gambia
5 Ciencias Naturales
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Jungle Jeopardy. Players strive to create a balanced rainforest ecosystem in which each animal has enough food to survive over a period of 12 days, in this interactive game from PLUM LANDING™. Players see how the different species of plants and animals in a rainforest depend on one another. They also experiment with how changing the amount of one resource affects the whole ecosystem.