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Matter and energy 6
Matter and energy quiz notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |