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5.32 Write a Claim about the Sun as the Source Worksheet

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Write a Claim about the Sun as the Source - Which model or diagram best shows expresses and revise a clear claim, supported by evidence from models and readings, that the sun is the ultimate energy source for most food webs? (NGSS 5-PS3-1; CCSS: W.5.1)

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Problem 1Difficulty: Mastery

A student writes four claim-evidence statements about a lake food web. Which one is strongest? Lake plants use sunlight to make food. Insects eat the plants. Trout eat the insects. Ospreys eat the trout.

ATrout are producers because they live in the middle of the chain.

BInsects give energy back to the plants after being eaten.

CThe osprey gets energy from the lake because it flies over water.

DThe Sun is the original source of energy for the osprey because lake plants used sunlight before energy moved to insects, trout, and then the osprey.

Solution & Explanation:The strongest statement names the original source of energy and traces the path clearly from the producer through each consumer to the osprey.

Problem 2Difficulty: Mastery

Use the planned forest food web showing the Sun, grass, berry bush, rabbit, mouse, snake, and hawk. Arrows show energy from the Sun to grass and berry bush, from grass to rabbit and mouse, from berry bush to mouse, from rabbit and mouse to snake, and from snake to hawk. Which claim is best supported?

AThe snake is the original source of energy for the forest web.

BOnly the rabbit is connected to the Sun.

CThe hawk receives Sun-based energy through more than one producer pathway in the forest food web.

DBerry bushes get energy from the hawk.

Solution & Explanation:The hawk's energy can come through several routes, but each route begins with a producer that used sunlight.

Problem 3Difficulty: Mastery

Which explanation best shows why removing sunlight would affect even predators that only eat other animals?

AOnly herbivores depend on sunlight.

BWithout sunlight, producers could not make enough food, so less energy would move through the whole food web to predators.

CPredators would still have the same energy because they do not eat plants.

DPredators get all of their energy from air and water.

Solution & Explanation:Predators depend on the energy that entered the food web through producers. If producers cannot capture sunlight, the rest of the web is affected.

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This worksheet is designed specifically for Grade 5 Science students. It aligns with educational standard 5-PS3-1 (Primary standard selected for prompt fields in this prompt cell: NGSS 5-PS3-1. Skill statement in this prompt cell: Which model or diagram best shows expresses and revise a clear claim, supported by evidence from models and readings, that the sun is the ultimate energy source for most food webs? Associated standards listed with this skill in this prompt cell: NGSS 5-PS3-1; CCSS: W.5.1. Use this prompt-provided wording as the supporting standard description for this workflow.).