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Science 5.10-11
matter & energy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Energy | needed to do work; causes change |
| chemical process | The process that changes the atomic or molecular structure of the involved materials by altering atoms and molecules |
| plant matter | A biomass produced by plants |
| bacteria | Microorganisms that can be found everywhere - can break down any type of organic matter - important as decompoers - Can be dangerous, such as when they cause infection |
| decomposer | Organism that consumes dead or non-living biomass without needed internal digestion - carry out the natural process of decomposition |
| food web | interconnected set of food chains - the job of a food web is to show how all these organisms are connected |
| fungi | play an important role in nature - They break down the unused dead material and turn them into nutrients in the soil, which plants use to grow - Fungi and bacteria |
| producers | Organisms that get energy from the Sun - they produce their own food - Plants are called producers |
| consumers | can't directly use suns energy - cannot make their own food - have to consume (eat) other organisms |
| carbon dioxide | a colorless odorless incombustible gas found in the earth's atmosphere |
| organisms | an individual single-celled living being - animal, plant |
| cells | basic unit of all living things |
| food web and food chain | sound like the same thing, but they aren't - food chain goes from top to bottom: hawk eats snake eats frog eats grasshopper eats grass - food web shows the different ways these organisms are connected. A hawk might also eat a rabbit or a mouse or a frog. |
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