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Matter and energy 6
Matter and energy quiz notes
Question | Answer |
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Producers are... | Organisms that use energy from the sun to carry out photosynthisis. |
Consumers are... | Organisms that get energy when they feed on producers or other consumers. |
Decomposers are... | Organisms that obtain energy by breaking down other organisms. |
An example of a decomposer is a... | fungi or worm. |
A food chain shows... | How energy from food is passed from one organism to another. |
A FOOD WEB is... | Series of overlapping food chains |
An ENERGY PYRAMID is... | Like a food chain. It compares the energy avalable at each level of the food chain. |
3 materials that cycle through the enviroment are... | Carbon, Water, Nitrogen |
3 parts of the WATER CYCLE are... | Evaporation, Condensation, evaporation |
Nitrogen cannot be used in its original form. So we need NITROGEN FIXATION. What is that? | NITROGEN FIXATION is when certain plants take nitrogen and combine it with other elements so that humans and animals can use it. |
Scavenger= | An amimal that feeds on the bodies of dead animals. |
Carnivore= | A consumer that only eats animals. |
Herbivore= | A consumer that only eats plants. |
Omnivore= | A consumer that eats a variaty of organisms. |
Mimicry= | A copy of another organism by looking the same. |