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Topic Reflection

Energy –The Balance of Life

What is energy?Energy is nutrients that we get from food but for plants there energy is the sunlight.


Where do humans get energy from?Humans get there energy from food and fruits that have nutritional fuel in it.

1. What substance does a tree use for food?(highlight your answer in yellow)
a. photosynthesis                                                       b. chlorophyll

c. glucose                                                                   d. leaves

2. What four things does a tree need for photosynthesis? (highlight your answer in yellow)
a)___Sunlight_____
b)___Water ______
c)_Carbon Dioxide
d)______Oxygen__________________

3. What causes a tree's leaves to appear green?
Glucose.


4. What signals a tree to preparing for winter?(highlight your answer in yellow)

a. The days become colder.
b. The weather becomes dry.
c. There are more rainy days.
d. There are fewer hours of sunlight.

5. How does a tree get water?(highlight your answer in yellow)

a. It makes water in its leaves.
b. It turns glucose into water.
c. It absorbs water through its roots.
d. It uses photosynthesis.


6. Why do a tree's leaves change color in the fall? (highlight your answer in yellow)

a. The tree has less chlorophyll.
b. The tree has less water.
c. The tree has no leaves.
d. The tree is growing quickly before the winter sets in.

Compost

What is compost? Compost  need food scrapes to help make the soil nutritional for the plants to grow fast.



What are the things that you cannot put in a compost bin?
List 5 things that you can put in a compost bin.

• Food Scrapes
• banana skin
• brown stuff
• green stuff
• pine-cone

Sustainability

This term you have completed a group project about the roles, rights and responsibilities of how people maintain sustainable food sources.
Draw a flow chart that represents the responsibility that people have to maintain the food source your group researched this term.



Sustainability group topic (e.g pork farming):___Dairy Farming__



Insert the picture of your flowchart in this space


Draw and label a picture that represents a healthy kai garden.

 

 

MY TOPIC REFLECTION

• What have you learnt about this topic?
• What did you like about this topic?
• What is your role in practicing sustainability for a balanced future - at home, at school, in my community?

I’ve learnt that you can help the world by using sustainability to help maintain this world.

I like this topic because if we have no tree’s left you can help grow some more tree’s to make paper to draw on.

To be sustainable at home I need to help my family clean up mess at home
At school I can be sustainable with my friends by thinking positively and I can archive my goals by using the feed back from my teacher my to archive my learning goals.
My community is to be sustainable is to recycle the dirt rubbish that is throw en around.