Unit+3+Biomes

=**What we aim to learn about** BIOMES : =

__**MATTER AND ENERGY TRANSFER:**__ - Interactions
 * -Source of Energy**
 * 1) Explain that all organisms require a form of energy to survive and that humans and other animals obtain energy from food.
 * 2) Categorize organisms as predator or prey in a given ecosystem
 * __INTERDEPENDENCE:__**
 * 1) Identify ways a specific organism may interact with other organisms or with the environment (e.g. camouflage, migration, hibernation, defensive mechanism)
 * 2) Investigate and describe plants as producers and animals as consumers and how living things may depend on each other

-**Effects of Changing Environment**
 * 1) Identify examples where human activity has had a beneficial or harmful effect on organisms
 * 2) Observe, record, and describe changes in the health or behavior of an organism as a result of change in environment

-**Food Web**
 * 1) Explain the way that plants and animals in a habitat depend on each other.
 * 2) Use information about organisms to design a habitat and explain how the habitat provides for the needs of organisms that live there.


 * __HEREDITY__**
 * - Natural Selection**
 * 1) Analyze structures needed for survival of populations of plants & animals in a particular habitat or environment.
 * 2) Give examples of how inherited characteristics may change over time as adaptations to changes in the environment that enable organisms to survive.

-**Effect of Environmental Behaviors**
 * 1) Describe plant behaviors, such as the way seedlings' stems grow toward the light and their roots grow downward in response to gravity
 * 2) Give examples of how changes in the environment have caused some plants and animals to die or move to new locations (migration).


 * Essential Questions:**
 * 1) How do scientists learn/ know?
 * 2) What kinds of interactions happen between plants and animals in the environment?
 * 3) How do living things change when their environment changes?

CLICK ON THE LINKS TO LEARN MORE: --BIOMES THINK QUEST

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What is a biome? media type="file" key="Real World Science Part 2 of 10.asf" width="300" height="300"

The Arctic Tundra media type="file" key="Real World Science Part 3 of 10.asf" width="300" height="300"

Desert Biome: media type="file" key="Real World Science Part 6 of 10.asf" width="300" height="300"

Grasslands Biome: media type="file" key="Real World Science Part 7 of 10.asf" width="300" height="300"

The Aquatic Biome: media type="file" key="Real World Science Part 8 of 10.asf" width="300" height="300"

The Rainforest Biome: media type="file" key="Real World Science Part 9 of 10.asf" width="300" height="300"

An Experiment: media type="file" key="Real World Science Part 10 of 10.asf" width="300" height="300"

Food Chain Video on United Streaming

Food Web Song--From Bill Nye the Science Guy media type="youtube" key="sbWyrcY5i3s" height="349" width="425"

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Can you remember all this??? WOW! media type="youtube" key="TE6wqG4nb3M" height="349" width="425"