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Questions to Ask your Child
Home Learning
Suggested Home Extensions
Key Vocabulary
gy, 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.
Recommend BBC programs such as Planet Earth and similar series
Spend time in natural settings observing the living organisms around them.
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