THE LORAX AND ENERGY FLOW

The Lorax

Part III. Upsetting the Delicate Balance

View the movie "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss.

Reflection Questions:
1. What did the Once-ler do to upset the balance in this ecosystem?

2. What effect did his business have on the living things in the ecosystem?

3. What effect did his business have on the water and air in the ecosystem? How did this affect the living things

?4. What is the moral of the story?

ANSWERS:

1: Once-ler cut the tree.

2: It affects the animals because they have no place to live and without animals the world is not balanced.

3: It helps their town so that they will not get tired but it reacts to the ecosystem and the ecosystem is harmed and all the living things in it.

4: The moral lesson is that harming the ecosystem is a bad thing and if you do something bad everybody will suffer. harming the ecosystem leads to a bad effect like air pollution,water pollution,acid rain and other calamities.

  

1. Where do plants get the energy they need to grow?
2. What do plants use the sun's energy to manufacture?
3. What do plants use most of their energy for?
4. How much of the energy that the plant captures through photosynthesis ends up stored as starch in the kernel?
5. For what does the cow use the energy from the corn?
6. How much of the energy stored in the corn gets passed on to you in burgers?
7. For what do you use the energy in the burgers?
8. How would eating more plants help us better feed the many people in the world?
9. What else besides energy do we get from plants and animals? When we eat them?

ANSWERS:

1. From the sunlight

2. To capture the energy from the sunlight to manufacture sugars from water and carbon dioxide.

3. For producing a food or product

4. There are 10percent that the plant captures through photosynthesis ends up started as starch in the kernel
5. So that the cow can produce a hamburger meat so that we can eat
6. 10 percent energy stored in the corn get passed through the burgers

7. To do our daily activities because without food we are weak and with no energy

8.Because plants is what keeps us living without plant we don't have oxygen and food to live

9. It gives us Oxygen