CHAPTER 9 LESSON 3 CFU

Fire group

Food webs often show that a single animal may eat many different types of animals and/or plants.
Why is eating a variety of different foods advantageous to an organism?

What forms does what take in the water cycle?

How does energy move in ecosystems?

What are the four types of consumers?

How does water move in ecosystems?

Water and Earth Group

What is the original source of energy for organisms?

What do plants release as a waste product?

How does energy move in ecosystems?

What are the four types of consumers?

How does water move in ecosystems?

Air group

What foods do herbivores eat?

Compare a food chain with a food web

How does energy move in ecosystems?

What are the four types of consumers?

How does water move in ecosystems?

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CHAPTER 9 LESSON 1 CFU QUESTIONS

ALL STUDENTS PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING 2 QUESTIONS:

Describe the parts of an ecosystem.

What is the difference between biome and biosphere?

ONLY Fire group

How do you depend on living and nonliving things in your ecosystem?

What characteristics do you think desert animals must have to survive?

Which contains more diversity: a population or a community?

ONLY Water group

Explain why a jungle vine is not likely to grow well in a desert?

Where does your water supply come from?

What makes up the atmosphere?

ONLY Air group and Earth group

What are different living things in your ecosystem?

What type of water do you need to survive?

Why do most living things need oxygen?

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CHAPTER 8 CFU
Fire group
How does the structure of a leave allow the leaf to gather light?
How might photosynthesis be affected if the spongy mesophyll cells were packed closely together
like the palisade mesophyll cells?
How do plants respond to the chemical stimuli, or hormones, auxin and ethylene?
In what way do leaves and roots respond differently to light?
What is an example of positive gravitropism? What is an example of negative gravitropism?

Water group
What are some ways plants reproduce?
How do materials move through plants?
What are the palisade mesophyll cells and what do they do?
What layer of cells in the plant contains vascular tissue?
Why is the oxygen added to the atmosphere important to animals?
Earth group
What gases do plants breathe in and out?
Why do plants carry out photosynthesis?
What are the two steps of photosynthesis?
How many different hormones do plants produce?
Why do humans need plants?

Air group
Draw and label the parts of a flower.
What is the color of most leaves? Have you seen leaves that are other colors?
What do the green cells do?
What are plant hormones?
Please draw and label the leaf cells on page 272 in your textbook.
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CHAPTER 7 CFU
FIRE GROUP
What other system does the skeletal system work with to help organisms move?
What mineral is stored by the skeletal system?
How are voluntary and involuntary functions alike and different?
Which part of the nervous system do the brain and spinal cord form?
How do hormones help the body maintain homeostasis?

WATER GROUP and EARTH GROUP

What are three things the skeletal and muscular systems do?
Which bones protect the brain, heart, and lungs?
What are the three different types of muscles found in the human body?
What body systems do soccer players use when playing?
What does the endocrine system use hormones for?

AIR GROUP
What would happen if the skeletal and muscular systems did not work together?
What are the two different tissues in bones?
What is a reflex?
What organs are part of the nervous system?
What are the five human senses?
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CHAPTER 7 CFU #1

Fire Group:
In what ways do human body systems interact?
What are the functions of the human body systems?
What are two functions of the large intestine?
What is the function of the kidneys?
How does the body use protein?
Water group and Earth group:
What are human body systems?
Identify where food enters the body.
What are alveoli and what do they do?
What gas is in air is sent to cells through the lungs?
What are two functions of the small intestine?

Air Group:
What organs make up the human body?
What is an organ system?
What is another name for the large intestine?
Name 5 types of nutrients.
What organs are part of the digestive system?