Energy Transfer
Both plants and animals use energy to do this
What is grow, reproduce, and/or heal?
This type of organism gets it energy directly from the sun and is unable to move from place to place on its own
What is a plant?
This type of organism breaks down plant and animal matter to help create soil
What is decomposer?
All of the living and nonliving things and all of their interactions in an area
What is an ecosystem?
Making a complete spin on an axis
What is rotation?
Humans can consume plants or animals for energy. This makes them --
What are omnivores?
This is an increase in size, abundance, or complexity
What is growth?
These materials are cycle in nature when plants and animals take in and give off air
What are carbon dioxide and oxygen?
Actions by one thing that have an effect on a different or separate thing
What are interactions?
The length of one day on Earth is determined by the amount of time this takes
What is Earth rotating once on its axis?
All the energy that is passed up the food chain started out as --
What is sunlight?
Plants need these four things to live and grow
What are sunlight, air, water, and space?
A compost pile can help create this mixture of sand, silt, clay, rock, and humus
What is soil?
A single self-contained living thing
What is an organism?
The path an object takes as it revolves around another object in space
What is orbit?
We used this word to describe the process of making the body well again
What is 'repair'?
The process where plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce sugar and release oxygen
What is photosynthesis?
This is a very small life form, especially a bacterium
What is a microbe?
A group of organisms that are similar to one another and can combine to produce offspring
What is a species?
The northernmost point on Earth as determined by the planet's rotation
What is the North Pole?
This is the key difference between how plants gain energy and how animals gain energy
What is 'plants don't have to consume other organisms, animals do'?
Plants convert energy from the sun into food energy to do this
What is grow, reproduce, and/or heal?
The space conditions, and all living and nonliving things around an organism
What is environment?
This can occur when a new species is introduced int oan ecosystem
What is imbalance (or an unbalanced ecosystem)?
A natural satellite that orbits a planet; some planets have none, others have more than 60; Earth has one
What is a moon?