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Energy and Matter in Ecosystem
Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
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Science
5th Grade
11/20/2008

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Term
A scientist who studies how living things interact with each other and the envirnoment
Definition
Ecologist
Term

 

                                 Consumer

 Sun → _________   ⁄

                                   \

                                      Decomposer

Definition
Producer
Term
Energy needed to survive comes from _____________ it allws you to breathe, move, and think
Definition
food
Term

___________ (plants) are the only organism that can capture the sun's energy.

Definition
Producers
Term

Producers can change the ___________ energy to food energy

Definition
Sun's
Term

The transfer of energy from producer to consumer creates a

___________ __________

Definition
food chain
Term

_____________ _____________

is the path of energy transfer from one living organism to another in an ecosystem

Definition
Food chain
Term
Organisms that eat producers are called __________ - order consumers
Definition
first
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____________- order consumers eat first order consumers
Definition
Second
Term

                       hawks

grass→crickets→mice  /

                                   \  owls

 

this is first or second order consumer

Definition
second
Term

A ____________ ___________ is the overlapping food chains that link producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem

Definition
food web
Term
You eat (high or low) on the food chain if you are an omnivore because you eat herbivores
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high
Term
You eat (high or low) on the food chain if you are a herbivore (eating producers)
Definition
low
Term

Yes or No

Most consumers eat a variety of foods.

Definition
yes
Term
___________ are organic compounds that act as the building blocks of life.
Definition
proteins
Term
___________ the cycle through which nitrogen changes into compounds that can be used by living things and then returns to the atmosphere
Definition
nitrogen cycle
Term

Used water that is combined with human wastes and food wastes is called _____________

Definition
sewage
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___________ is the process of using oxygen to release energy from food.
Definition
cell respiration
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_______________ are living things that break down the remains of dead plants and animals.
Definition
decomposers
Term
___________ water vapor that is released from the leaves of plants during photosynthesis
Definition
transpiration
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A continuous process in which water moves between the atmosphere and Earth's surface including the use of water by living things is called the _____________
Definition
water cycle
Term
___________ a living thing that obtains energy by eating other things
Definition
consumer
Term
_____________ is the source of most life-giving energy
Definition
Sun
Term
The process by which a gas is changed into a liquid is called _____________
Definition
condensation
Term

yes or no

Evaporation is when liquid water changes into water vapor.

 

Definition
YES
Term

yes or no

A carnivore eats producers.

Definition
NO
Term

yes or no

An energy strand is the arrow between producers and consumers in a food chain.

Definition
YES
Term

yes or no

Lightning changes some nitrogen gas into usable nitrogen compounds that organisms can use.

Definition
YES
Term

yes or no

Consumers are the only organisms that captures the Sun's energy.

Definition
NO
Term

yes or no

Humans are first-order and second-order consumers.

Definition
YES
Term

yes or no

There is the same amount of water on Earth today as there was in prehistoric times.

Definition
YES
Term

yes or no

The nitorgen cycle is when plants use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen and animals use oxygen and produce carbon dioxide.

Definition
NO
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