Matter on the move
When animals eat plants and other animals, matter moves through this type of pathway.
What is a food chain/food web?
This type of organism makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
This provides light and energy to Earth.
What is the Sun?
Plants need this from the Sun to make food.
What is sunlight?
This simple action helps keep ecosystems clean by picking up garbage.
What is cleaning up litter?
When an animal eats a plant, matter moves from this organism to the animal.
What is a producer?
This type of consumer eats secondary consumers.
What is a tertiary consumer?
This is the original source of energy for most ecosystems on Earth.
What is the Sun?
This liquid is needed by plants to survive.
What is water?
This action helps protect ecosystems by using less plastic and creating less trash/
What is reducing waste?
This process returns nutrients from dead organisms back into the soil.
What is decomposition?
In a food chain: grass → grasshopper → frog → snake → hawk , this organism is the producer/
What is the grass?
Energy from the Sun first enters the food chain through these organisms.
What are producers?
Plants absorb this from the soil to help them grow.
What are nutrients?
Adding plants back to an area to help animals return is this type of action.
What is habitat restoration?
Matter in an ecosystem is not created or destroyed, only changed because of this rule.
What is conservation of matter?
In a food chain: grass → grasshopper → frog → snake → hawk , this organism is the primary consumer.
What is the grasshopper?
Without the Sun, plants would not be able to do this.
What is make food (photosynthesis)?
This gas from the air is used by plants to make food.
What is carbon dioxide?
Cleaning up trash from rivers, parks, or oceans helps restore ecosystems by doing this.
What is removing pollution?
This describes how matter repeats through producers, consumers, and decomposers instead of being used once.
What is the cycling of matter?
In a food chain: grass → grasshopper → frog → snake → hawk, this organism is the tertiary consumer.
What is the snake?
True or False: Sunlight is made of matter.
What is False?
These four things are needed by plants to survive and grow.
What are sunlight, water, air (carbon dioxide), and nutrients?
Planting trees in an area where forests were cut down is an example of this restoration practice.
What is reforestation?