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Grade 7 · Science · Unit 4 of 11

Netukulimk & Interconnected Life

How living things depend on each other, and how we can care for them.

What your child practises

Practises how living things and their environment are connected: food webs, energy flow, populations, relationships and human impact. It includes Netukulimk, the Mi’kmaw approach of taking what is needed from the land and sea in a way that keeps everything healthy for the future. Indigenous content is light and will be reviewed with community partners.

Nova Scotia Curriculum learning outcome: Environmental Action · food webs, producers, consumers, decomposers, relationships, human impact, Netukulimk and stewardship

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What does Netukulimk mean in the Mi’kmaw way of life?

    • taking as much as possible
    • using what is needed from the land and sea in a way that keeps them healthy
    • never using anything from nature

  2. Question 2

    Which is a nonliving part of an ecosystem?

    • water
    • bacteria
    • moss

  3. Question 3

    Two bird species both need the same nesting holes. This is…

    • competition
    • decomposing
    • mutualism

  4. Question 4

    In a food web, an arrow points…

    • toward the Sun only
    • away from the eater
    • toward the living thing that eats

  5. Question 5

    Which people use the word Netukulimk?

    • the Mi’kmaq
    • the Loyalists
    • the Vikings

  6. Question 6

    A fox is removed from a meadow. What might happen to the rabbits at first?

    • They turn into foxes
    • They could increase in number
    • They disappear at once

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