Name(s)_______________________________________ Period_________ Date____________________
Directions: While watching, complete this video guide.
Answers can be found near marked times.
https://app.schooltube.com/video/c6157f8035834b51bdf7/Bill_Nye_Food_Web
Word Bank: some words may be used twice
plants
food web
algae
decomposers
photosynthesis
hydroponics
carbon dioxide
oxygen
ocean
gather
sun
light
1. All living things depend on _________________________. (1:12)
2. Either you eat plants, or you are a plant, or you eat things that eat plants. Everything that
eats, that is alive, is connected in a ________________ ______________. (1:35)
3. All living things in the food web eventually are connected to _________________. (2:42)
4. How is a chicken sandwich connected to plants?
a. _______________bread
b. _______________lettuce
c. _______________chicken
d. _______________tomatoes
5. Bacteria, fungi, earthworms, and other creatures that eat dead things are all examples
of _______________________. They put important nutrients into soil for plants. (4:20)
6. Most of the plants on Earth live in the ________________. A lot of _____________________
takes place down here. A lot of plants are microscopic like _________________. (5:20)
7. Today, we get our food from the grocery store. But, in the past, our scavenger ancestors
used to hunt and ___________________ their food. (7:36)
8. Nifty Onion Experiment: Explain the point in your owns words. (8:25)
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Consider the Following:
9. Plants get the energy they need to live from the ____________. (9:45)
10. Plants make their own food using sunlight, _____________ ______________, and water. (9:50)
11. This process is called _____________________, which means making from ____________. (9:59)
12. All animals like humans need plants because animals
breathe in _______________________ and breathe out
__________________ _________________. Plants breathe
in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. (10:32)
13. All the ingredients on a pepperoni pizza came from __________________. (12:23)
Way Cool Scientist
14. ____________________ is a technique for growing plants
without soil. (13:32)
Check It Out
15. The food web is really based on a food pyramid with lots of ______________ at the bottom
and just a few big animals at the top. (15:47)
16. Explain what a FOOD WEB is using examples from Bill Nye’s Apple Tree Scenario (15:56)
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17. As you go higher up the food pyramid, there is more/less energy from plants. (16:25)
Food Webby Web “(It’s the) Food Web” song
18. Name 10 food items mentioned in the Science song. (19:42)
a. ______________________________
f. _________________________________
b. ______________________________
g. ________________________________
c. ______________________________
h. ________________________________
d. ______________________________
i. _________________________________
e. ______________________________
j. _________________________________