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Lesson 4 REEP
The Nutrient Cycle
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nutrients are elements such as ________, which are essential for growth. | Minerals |
| How do MN enter our bodies? | food we eat and water |
| In a typical cycle, nutrients may move from the soil,into a ________ (green plant) to an _________ (plant eater) to a ________(meat eater) and then back to the soil by means of ___________ (organisms that feed on dead material) | producer, herbivore, carnivor, decomposer |
| Why are plants called decomposers? | they are the only organism which can make their own food. |
| Animals which eat plants are called? | herbivores |
| Animals which eat other animals are called? | Carnivors |
| Animals that eat both plants and animals are called? | Omnivores |
| Decomposers are things that?(they release nutrients back to the soil) | eat waste material and dead plants or animals. |
| A food chain consists of? | One kind eating another which is in turn eaten by a third kind |
| What are the 4 steps in the nutrient cycle? | ingestion, decomposers, nutrients returned to the soil, and nutrients taken up by the roots |
| True or False? The nutrient cycle goes by an animal eating it then the nutrients go into the roots then they are returned to the soil and then decomposers eat them. | False |
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