Unit of Inquiry #2

Essential Questions:

• Why do we have senses?
• How do plants sense and respond?
• What are the 4 plant tropisms?
• How do animals sense and respond, using echolocation, infrared heat sensors, and magnetoreception?
• What are needs and wants? (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs)
• How does Darwin explain his theory of evolution?
• How do animals adapt to their enviroment? 
• How do the biomes of grasslands, marine, tundra, desert, and tropical rainforest differ? 
• What is a predator/prey? Omnivore, carnivore, and herbivore?