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1. What did you have for breakfast this morning? Make
a list of the different foods. For each food on your list,
draw the food chain that ends with you eating this
food.
2. How might the following conditions affect the growth
of a plant: amount of rain, amount of sunlight, type
of soil the plant is growing in, and number of
herbivores that live in the same habitat?
3. List three ways that humans depend on plants.
4. Think of a community of living things that you have
visited or seen in the last year. Make a list of four
producers and four consumers in this community.
What would happen to those living things if a road
were built through the middle of this community?
5. Burrowing owls eat insects, rodents, birds, and dead
animals. Does this make them herbivores, carnivores,
omnivores, scavengers, or decomposers? Can an
animal be more than one of these?
6. What is a structural adaptation? What is a
behavioural adaptation? Give one example of each.
7. Research one structural adaptation of the Venus flytrap
in this photo. Explain how this adaptation helps the
Venus flytrap survive.
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8. Camouflage is an important structural adaptation for
some animals. Name an animal that has it. Explain
how it helps the animal survive.
9. How do First Nations and Métis peoples live in balance
with the land?
10. Think of an animal that hibernates. How does this
adaptation help it survive?
11. Do you think that human changes to a habitat are
always negative? Give reasons and examples.
12. If you could make laws for Saskatchewan, what laws
would you make to protect our environment?
13. List some of the connections you observed between the
various plants and animals in your classroom habitat.
If one type of plant or animal were removed, how
would it affect the others?
14. Research First Nations or Métis ideas or stories that tell
how everything in the world is connected and related.
Use the key term “Circle of Life.” What can these stories
teach us about how to treat Mother Earth or habitats?
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15. If you could set up a different classroom
habitat, what would it be? Why would you
choose this kind of habitat? What different
things would you be able to learn from it?
16. Look back at the KWL chart you made at
the beginning of this unit. Complete the
“Learned” column by telling what you
learned in this unit.
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