Nature
A scientists who studies ecosystems.
Ecologist
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The ability to make things move or change
Energy
A proposed answer to a question
Claim
True or False: Animals grow by changing food molecules into body molecules that can build their bodies.
True!
A community of organisms together with its environment.
Ecosystem
A living thing, such as a plant or an animal.
Organism
Proposed answer to a question.
Claim
Information that supports an answer to a question.
Evidence
Food molecules in an ecosystem can always be traced back to what?
Plants
A mixture of rocks, water, air, parts of dead organisms, and tiny living organisms.
Soil
A diagram that shows what eats what in an ecosystem.
Food Web
A group of atoms joined together in nay particular way.
Molecule
Observations or measurements recorded in an investigation.
Everything is made out of what?
Matter
All the living things and nonliving things in an area.
Environment
Something that is taken in by plants and animals, helping them grow.
Nutrient
The stuff that things are made of
Matter
To use any of the senses to gather information about something
Observe
What uses water molecules, carbon dioxide from air, and energy from sun to make food?
Plants!
The process of returning something to its original condition by fixing or repairing it.
Restoration
An organism that breaks down droppings or dead organisms.
Decomposer
To put together multiple pieces of information in order to understand something.
Synthesize
The use of evidence to say why one idea is the best.
Argument
Energy in an ecosystem can always be traced back to what?
The Sun!