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Cycling of Matter
Cycling of Matter pt 2
Microbes in Ecosystems
Ecological Pyramid
What is an experiment?
100
chemicals essential for the growth of living things
What are nutrients?
100
Organisms that rely on plants for food
What is a consumer
100
Name 3 harmful microbes
What are fungus, viruses, bacteria, protozoans.
100
How many mosquitoes do dragonflies eat each day?
What is more than it's own body weight.
100
What you are trying to find out
What is question
200
The use and reuse of matter on Earth
What is the matter cycle
200
consumers that eat only plants
What is herbivore
200
Name 3 beneficial microbes
What are buttermilk, yogurt, cheese, penicillin
200
Why are there more mosquitoes than dragonflies?
What is because mosquitoes store very little energy from their food (our blood) because most of the energy from our blood is used to keep the mosquito alive. therefore, there need to be more mosquitoes to keep a dragonfly alive.
200
What you are going to do step by step
What is procedure
300
Process in which plants turn sunlight into sugar (food)
What is photosynthesis
300
Consumers that eat other animals
What is carnivore
300
Why are microbes important?
What is because they help to break down material to be reused.
300
A graphical way to show the effects of a loss of energy
What is an ecological pyramid
300
items you need to do an experiment
What is materials
400
Green substance that allows plants to capture energy from the sun
What is Chlorophyll
400
organisms that eat both plants and animals
What is omnivore
400
Why are bad microbes important? (the ones that cause diseases)
What is because sometimes when an animal dies from diseases, this helps to create more food for the others.
400
Why are there more insects at the bottom of an ecological pyramid than at the top?
What is because larger animals need to eat a lot more of the insects to stay alive. they do not transfer as much energy.
400
An educated guess
What is hypothesis
500
Organisms that can make their own food
What are producers
500
Describe either a food web or food chain
Food web are the relationships between a number of food chains. Food chains are one single feeding pathway.
500
What does HIV stand for?
What is human immunodeficiency Virus.
500
Are the ecological pyramids the same in the summer as they are in the winter?
What is no. In the summer, there are many more producers for the consumers to eat.
500
What is an experiment?
What is a test or trial to find out something new or demonstrate something known.