
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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