Matter Cycles
The gas that animals breathe in
What is oxygen?
Plants need these things for photosynthesis
What is sunlight, air, and water?
List 2 examples of what decomposers break down?
What is dead plants, dead animals, and waste? (any 2)
This is the main source of energy for almost all food webs
What is the sun?
Recycling is most similar to the job of this type of organism
What are decomposers?
The gas that animals breathe out
What is carbon dioxide?
This gas enters the leaves of plants during photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide?
Decomposers get this element from what they consume.
What is nitrogen?
Animals that eat plants are called this
What are consumers?
True or false: Plants mainly need soil to grow. (explain why or why not)
What is false — they mainly need sunlight, water, and air.
Plants release this gas back into the air
What is oxygen?
This captures sunlight energy inside a plant's leaves
What is chlorophyll?
Decomposers are important in an ecosystem because they do this
What is they return nutrients to the soil so plants can grow?
A robin gets energy from a worm because...
What is the worm contains energy from the food it has eaten?
This is how you could collect evidence that plants don’t need soil to grow
What is grow plants in water and compare them to plants in soil. (hydroponics)
Name two ways animals help cycle matter in ecosystems.
What is breathing, giving off waste, or decomposing when they die? (any 2)
Name both main products of photosynthesis
What is sugar (food/glucose) and oxygen?
If decomposers disappeared, this would happen to the soil
What is it would lose nutrients and become less healthy for plants?
This is the first step you should draw in an energy flowchart
What is the sun?
One way to model how an invasive species affects an ecosystem
What is add it to a food web and show how it reduces resources or changes populations.
My own role in the oxygen–carbon dioxide cycle
What is I breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, which plants use for photosynthesis?
Explain how photosynthesis connects plants and animals in an ecosystem.
What is plants make oxygen and food using sunlight, and animals rely on both to survive.
Explain how decomposers help continue the nitrogen cycle in ecosystems.
What is they break down waste and dead matter, releasing nitrogen back into the soil for plants?
Explain how the energy from the sun ends up in a wolf (think broad terms)
What is sun → plants/producers → herbivores → carnivores (the wolf eats animals that got energy from plants) (omnivores can be added in)
This is why cattle might eat more in cold weather
What is they use more energy to stay warm and need more food to replace it?