Energy
What's energy?
energy is when all organisms take in food, which allows them to do work to survive in their environment.
what is an ecosystem?
a combination of living and nonliving things and how they interact all combine to form this
what are the 3 cycles?
water cycle, carbon cycle, and nitrogen cycle
What's another name for home?
habitat
what is his favorite food?
steak
why do organisms need energy?
organisms need energy because it prevents them from being not able to do things they need to do, and keeps us from getting tired.
what is in an ecosystem?
Living and nonliving things
what is the water cycle?
when water is recycled in nature and reused over and over again in a process
anything that has mass and takes up space?
matter
what is his favorite dessert?
cherry pie
what is photosynthesis?
the process that plants use to make their own food (sugar) by taking in energy from the sun, consuming C02, and producing oxygen
in an ecosystem, which would have more population, primary consumers or secondary consumers?
primary consumers
what is the carbon cycle?
when carbon moves through the environment from organism to organism in a process
cellular respiration?
cells use this to break down the stored sugar they have and turn it into food
what is his favorite ice cream flavor?
strawberry and cherry
how do producers, consumers, and decomposers get energy?
producers get their food/energy from the sun, consumers get food/energy from eating other organisms, and decomposers get their food/energy from breaking down decayed matter.
out of these, which ones eat other animals only? wolf bunny deer.
wolf
what is the nitrogen cycle?
the movement of nitrogen from the environment to living things
food web?
shows who eats who in an ecosystem
how many state have he traveled to?
about 30
what happens to the energy as you go up in an energy pyramid?
The pyramid gets smaller the more you go up. The # of organisms in that section decrease in population (producers are the biggest population, apex predator is the smallest of population), and the amount of energy also goes down with the population.
How might the ecosystem be affected if all the plants disappeared?
All the primary consumers disappear and then as you go up everything will disappear in the ecosystem.
how do the 3 cycles travel around? how is it shared with other organisms?
The water cycle shows how water travels all around using 3 main states: evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. It is shared between organisms because every organism needs water to survive. The nitrogen cycle shows how organisms need nitrogen for their daily lives. Like energy, when an organism eats another organism, or producers get their energy from the sun, it is transferred to the organism/producer. The carbon cycle shows that carbon is in things, like in fossil fuels, or in organisms.
energy pyramid?
a tool that can be used to trace the flow of energy through an ecosystem
what is his favorite class period?
2nd period but 1st is growing on him