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Pate- Topic Reflection.doc

Topic Reflection

Energy –The Balance of Life

What is energy?
Energy is power the balance of life.


Where do humans get energy from?
food and water.
                      
                            Plants
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) Glucose
b) chlorophyll
d) water
c) sunlight


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

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?
A compost is a bin where you put fruit scraps.
What are the things that you cannot put in a compost bin?

• meat
• dairy products
• fish
• plastic

   
List 5 things that you can put in a compost bin.

• grass
• dead leaves
• dead plants
• fruit skins
• apple cores

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):___beef farming__

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?

My Kai garden is about making the world a better place. This is by planting fruit and vegetable to maintain our body energy which keeps us going.I have also learnt that plants give us oxygen cause if there were no plants we wouldn’t be here right now.Did you know that it is also a great thing cause it helps the community . I can be sustainable by picking up rubbish to contributing to the community to keep it clean and green.