` Al-Jami'a’ Secondary Schools

Date: /Mar /2021

Science Booklet 2
Unit 2: “Living things in the environment”

Name:
Grade 5 (A/B)
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Lesson 1: Food Chains in A Local Habitat

●Important scientific terms:

- Feeding relationship: a relationship between living things where an animal

eats a plant or another animal in its surroundings.

Example:

-Food chain: a way to describe the feeding relationship between plants and
animals.

Example:

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- Pests: an unwanted plant or animal, such as an insect that eats your flowers.

Examples:

Depict: when you depict an idea you show it using a diagram or drawing.

Species: a particular type of plant or animal.

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 Lesson 2: Food Chains Begin With Plants

●Important scientific terms:

Producer: a plant that produces energy from sunlight.

Unique: not like anything else.

Example: plants are unique because they produce their own

food.

Consumer: a living thing (usually an animal) that eats another

plant or animal.

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Photosynthesis is the way that plants make food using energy from light.

The factors that the plants need for photosynthesis are :

1) Water (H2O)

2) Sunlight

3) Carbon dioxide (CO2)

● The plants take in energy from the Sun and uses it to change water and
carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen.

● Cholorophyll is the green pigment of the plants, and it is essential for

photosynthesis, because it captures the energy from the sunlight.

- The equation below represents the photosynthesis process:

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Q2. a. On the diagram below, name the three things that the plants need
for photosynthesis and where the plants get them from:

b. Plants produce two things as a result of photosynthesis. What are they?

1……………………...……. 2……………………………

c. Where does photosynthesis take place?

…………………………………………………………………………………………..

d. What is the name of the green pigment present in the leaf cells of a plant and what is the
function of it?

……………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………

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Lesson 3: Consumers in Food Chains

●Important scientific terms:

- Predator: a consumer that eats other animals (which are their prey).
- prey: an animal that is eaten by another animal (a predator).

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 Lesson 4: Food Chains in Different Habitats

●Important scientific terms:

-Plankton: tiny plants and animals that live in the sea.

-Savannah: grassland regions with a tropical climate.

-Desert: regions with very little rainfall.

-Tropical: tropical countries lie between the

tropics where the climate is hot and wet;
23 degrees north or south of the equator.

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Lesson 5: Deforestation

●Important scientific terms:

-Deforestation: removal of trees by humans.

-Environment: our natural surroundings

-Global warming: the gradual increase in temperatures throughout the world.

- Conserve: to keep safe, to protect from extinction.

-Greenhouse gas: a gas that traps heat causing the temperature of the
atmosphere to rise, for example, carbon dioxide.

-Negative (effect): something that does not have a good effect.

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 Lesson 6: Air Pollution

●Important scientific terms:

-Pollution: making the environment dirty with waste products.

-Pollutants: substances which cause pollution.

-Atmosphere: the mixture of gases surrounding the Earth.

-Asthma: an allergic reaction that causes a person to have difficulty

breathing.

-Bronchitis: a lung infection that can be caused by polluted air.

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 Lesson 7: Acid Rain

●Important scientific terms:

-Acid rain: rain that contains dissolved nitric oxides or sulfur dioxide;
these compounds make the rain acidic.

●Acid rain has a damaging effect on many objects, including buildings,

statues and cars.

●The chemicals found in acid rain can cause paint to peel and stone statues
begin to appear old and worn down, which reduces their value and beauty.

●Acids have a corrosive effect on limestone or marble buildings.

Sulfur dioxide (which forms acid rain) increases the rate of corrosion of
limestone, and marble. Corrosion is the breaking down of a substance.

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Q6

Draw lines to match the ways that humans destroy the environment
with some of the effects of this destruction (A–D).

Way in which
humans are Some possible
destroying effects
environment

A.causes lung
1. deforestation diseases such as
bronchitis

2. acid rain B.kills marine life

C.damages
3. air pollution buildings and
trees

D.destroys habitats
4. plastic litter
of forest animals

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Lesson 8: Recycling

●Important scientific terms:

-Waste disposal: getting rid of rubbish we throw away.

-Recycling: to re-process something and make into a new product.

-Landfill (site): where waste products from a town or city are disposed of
or buried.

-Compost: rotted vegetables and garden waste that is used as a fertilizer.

-Positive (effect): something that has a good effect.

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Lesson 9: Take Care of Your Environment

●Important scientific terms:

-Resource: a store of something necessary for life, such as water, energy and
minerals.

-Audit: a sorting and checking exercise.

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