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Ecosystems and European Discoveries

Words and their Meanings

Question: What do worms do for the Ecosystem?
Answer: airate the soil

Question: An Ecosystem is made up of what two major things?a. rocks and treesb. living things and wormsc. living and non living things
Answer: c. living and non things

Question: An animal that eats dead animals is called a _________________.a. omnivoreb. scavengerc. prey
Answer: b. scavenger

Question: Name three things in an Ecosystem that can provide food.


Answer: sun- grass, grasshoppers, nuts, berries, squirrels, fish... ect.

Question: What size can an ecosystem be?
Answer: as big or small as need be.

Ecosystems

Question: What is a comsumer that eats other consumers?
Answer: carnivore

Question: a chipmunk leaves its burrow to search for nuts and seeds. The chipmunk is a _______________.
Answer: herbivore

Question: A crow that eats spiders and some wheat.
Answer: omnivore

Question: An owl swoops down to capture a mouse.
Answer: carnivore

Question: Give an example of a food web.
Answer:



sun> plant- rabbit > snake > hawk
- grasshopper > lizard
- mouse > snake > hawk> eagle

Plants Plants Plants

Question: An Ecosystem can be as vast as the ocean or as small as a drop of water.

Explain what the word VAST means in this sentence.
Answer: Vast means large in this sentence.

Question: What is chlorolphyll to the plant?
Answer: Chlorophyll is the green substance in the plan.

Question: A gas that is found in the air that plants need for photosythesis is called what?

Answer: carbon dioxide.

for 300 bonus points what is the chemical formula for Carbon Dioxide?

Question: Where do plants get their energy from?

a. the sun

b. the dirt

c. humans

d. burritos
Answer: a. the sun

Question: Explain what photosynthesis is.
Answer: the process by which plants change light energy from the sun and use it to make sugars and oxygen.

European Discoveries

Question: What country was Christopher Columbus looking for when he said west?
Answer: India

Question: Name three reasons that people came to Missouri.

a. to swim, to spread the word of God, and to worship

b. to explore the Colorado River, to trade with the Indians, and to hunt

c. to trade with the Indians, to spread the word of God, and to make money off of valuable metals
Answer: c. to trade with the Inians, to spread the word of God, and to make money off of valuable metals

Question: What were the names of the ships that Queen Isabella provided to Columbus to sail with?

Answer: Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta

Question: What is the oldest city in Missouri?

Where is this city located in Missouri? - South, East, West, or North Missouri
Answer: Ste. Genevieve (WEST)

Question: Why was salt so important to the settlers?
Answer: For seasoning their food and preserving it.

Mystery

Question: Give an example of a food chain.
Answer: sun> plant> rabbit> snake> hawk

Question: Give an example of a decomposer. What is a decomposer?
Answer: Fungi, mushrooms, maggots...

a decomposer is a consumer that puts materials from dead plants and animals back into the soil, air, and water.

Question: How did the flood in Ste. Genevieve affect the people living there?
Answer: The houses were built right on the river, so when the river flooded over the houses and crops were destroyed. The people of the town were forced to leave the town and create home else where. Or rebuild their homes elsewhere in the communitity- but start from scratch.

Question: Who was the 14 year old boy named Auguste Chouteau? What did he do in Missouri that is so important for even US today?
Answer: Auguste Chouteau was responsible for carrying out the St. Louis duties and creating the largest trading post on the west side of the Mississippi River. St. Louis is now one of the largest cities in America.

Question: Name 7 things that the Indians went to the trading post to trade their furs for.
Answer: Axes, blankets, kettles, thimbles, knives, guns, cloth, mirrors...