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Questions to Ask your Child Home Learning Suggested Home Extensions Key Vocabulary ogy, economics, politics and culture. ● How is an ecosystem like a human community? ● What are the causes of species endangerment? ● How are ecosystems rehabilitated? ● How do writers communicate the story of choices and their effects? Watch documentaries produced by naturalists that explain how ecosystems work and discuss ways in which those ecosystems may affect your family directly and indirectly. We recommend BBC programs such as Planet Earth, Our Planet, Blue Planet and similar series. Research and discover together the biology and uniqueness of the plants we eat at home. Grow something together as a family. Research what it needs to thrive and work to give it the best environment possible. Spend time in natural settings observing the living organisms around you. Make an effort to contribute meaningfully as a family to a reforestation or animal conservation program. Research and design a sustainable micro-ecosystem for your room. Ecosystem, population, organism, producers, consumer, food web, food chain, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, water cycle, habitat, niche, adaptation, symbiosis, predator, prey, species, alien species, native (or endemic) species, endangered, threatened, extinct, human impact, deforestation, reforestation sustainable, conservation, endangerment, rehabilitation conservation