Energy Cycle
The primary source of energy for all life forms on earth.
What is the sun.
What is the amount of stuff in matter called?
What is mass?
Where does the energy for photosynthesis come from?
What is sunlight.
(T/F) most of the plant's mass comes from the air.
T
These creatures turn waste into nutrients.
What are decomposers.
The energy transfer of a moose is?
What is the sun - plant leaves - moose.
Matter has three forms?
What is Liquid, Solid, and Gas
Where does photosynthesis happen in a plant?
What is leaves or chloroplasts.
(T/F) plants use the soil in the ground to grow.
F
In terms of an ecosystem, what is a producer?
What is a plant.
(T/F) Once an animal eats a leaf, the energy inside the plant disappears?
F
Characteristics of Solids
Keeps a definite shape, does not flow, and can be held easily.
Three things that plants need to conduct photosynthesis?
What is sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.
Can a plant grow without soil?
Yes because plants only need carbon dioxide and water to grow.
In terms of an ecosystem, what is a consumer?
An animal that eats plants and other animals.
The energy transfer of a frog is?
What is: sun - plants, bugs, and frogs
Characteristics of liquids
Takes the shape of their container, can be poured, and has a fixed volume.
What gas do plants release as a waste product?
What is oxygen.
Where does most of a plant's mass come from?
What is carbon dioxide and water.
The two main parts of an ecosystem.
What is living and non living things (biotic and abiotic).
In a field, the sun transfers energy to plants, a rabbit eats grass and a hawk eats the rabbit, does the hawk get the same amount of energy from the sun a rabbit gets from the grass?
No, the hawk receives less energy than the rabbit from the sun.
Characteristics of a gas.
Has no fixed shape or volume, expands to fill their container, particles move rapidly and randomly.
What kind of food do plants make?
What is sugar or glucose.
If a tree grows for 50 years, why does the soil not disappear.
What is the bulk of the tree's mass comes from carbon dioxide in the air.
A community of living things, that interact with each other and their nonliving environment.
What is an ecosystem.