Topic Reflection

Topic Reflection

Energy –The Balance of Life

What is energy?Energy is all about being healthy and sustainable.


Where do humans get energy from?Humans get energy from plants.

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)__________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 is a bin full of worms foods scraps,apple core,banana peels and plenty more stuff.You can make worm juice witch has nutrients and rich soil.


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

• Banana Peels
• food scraps
• apple core
• pear
• left overs

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):Lamb farming______



People have to make sure that they shave the skin of the sheep.




Farmers have to make sure that the sheep is in good condition.

People also make sure that the lamb is healthy.


People also make sure that the lamb gets exported and imported well.

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 have learned heaps of stuff about lamb farming,pork farming,planting and farming around the world,beef farming,dairy farming,poultry farming and genetically modified food.What I liked about the topic was learning about the different type of farming here in New Zealand and around the world.To be sustainable at at home I need to re-cycle my paper and make the right choices.At school I can be sustainable by listening to my teacher,do my work and come to school.My role in the community is to be sustainable is to pick up rubbish and contribute to make a healthy community.