Matter
form of energy stored in food
energy in molecules
Importance of animals to be able to move?
Find Food
Decomposition helps with what?
Available energy decreases with each organism.
Why?
Plants get energy from
sunlight
Where do plants get matter they need to survive?
From the environment
What does the Carbon Cycle Show?
How matter passes through an ecosystem.
Animals get energy from
eating other organisms
Where do animals get the matter they need to survive?
food and water
When things decompose, they create nutrients. how do you know nutrients have matter?
Nutrients have mass.
How do consumers get energy?
Eating other organisms
How do plants get carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen?
through roots
carbon dioxide through leaves
How do plants obtain elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen?
From the environment
How do animals get carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen?
consume food and water