Populations & Resources
What do consumer populations eat?
Resource populations
Where can you get energy from?
Food
What is Sediment?
Small pieces of rock.
What state will a substance be in when the molecules move away from each other?
Gas.
What does FOM stand for?
Freedom of Movement
What’s the opposite of a consumer population?
Resource Population
Why is reproduction necessary?
Reproduction is to ensure that life continues for organisms.
What is magma?
Hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth.
What causes the water molecules’ freedom of movement to increase?
Heat.
What does ESM stand for?
Energy Storage Molecules.
Weebugs get energy storage molecules from eating greenleafs. What change to the greenleaf population could increase the number of births in the weebug population? Increase or decrease?
increase greenleafs
What do animals need to reproduce?
Energy
What is igneous rock?
the rock type formed when magma cools and becomes solid
How can you change the Freedom of Movement in an object?
You either need to heat it up or cool it down.
What does freedom of movement mean?
the way molecules in a substance move around relative to each other
What is a consumer population?
A population that eats other organisms.
What happens to an organism’s energy storage molecules when it reproduces?
The organisms ESM will start to decrease when reproducing.
Where does sediment come from?
Weathering of rocks, erosion, oceans, lakes, sand, rocks, small materials, compaction and cementation.
What state will a substance be in when the molecules just move in place, vibrating back and forth?
Solid.
What does scale mean?
the relative size of things
What is a resource population?
A population that is eaten for food.
What is a secondary consumer?
An organism that eat the primary consumer for esm.
Where does magma come from?
The lower part of Earth’s crust.
When molecules move around each other but not away from each other, what state is the substance in?
Liquid.
What does molecule mean?
a group of atoms joined together in a particular way