front 1 Atoms | back 1 The building blocks to all matter (living and nonliving) |
front 2 Molecules | back 2 When 2 different atoms combine |
front 3 Molecules form what 4 things? | back 3 cells tissue organs other organisms |
front 4 What 4 atoms is every organism made of? | back 4 Oxygen Nitrogen Hydrogen Carbon |
front 5 What doe every organism require? | back 5 energy |
front 6 Can energy be created and destroyed? | back 6 No |
front 7 What are 2 ways organism get energy? | back 7 - By changing light from the sun to chemical energy (Autotrophs) - consuming other plants and animals (Heterotrophs) |
front 8 Where do producers get energy from? | back 8 The sun |
front 9 What gives energy to almost every living thing? | back 9 sunlight |
front 10 Producers | back 10 microorganisms that can break down sunlight into energy during photosynthesis |
front 11 What is reversed during photosynthesis? | back 11 Energy |
front 12 What do consumers get energy from? | back 12 organisms |
front 13 How are consumers sorted into categories? | back 13 how they get food |
front 14 What do herbivores eat? | back 14 plants |
front 15 What do carnivores eat? | back 15 animals |
front 16 What do omnivores eat? | back 16 plants and animals |
front 17 What do scavengers eat? | back 17 dead plants and animals |
front 18 How do decomposers get energy? | back 18 breaking down dead organisms into simple atoms and molecules |
front 19 Food webs | back 19 They show how energy flows among organisms |
front 20 What does a food chain show? | back 20 how energy moves from the sun to a producer and who eats who |
front 21 Primary consumers | back 21 Consumers that eat plants |
front 22 What do primary consumers eat? | back 22 secondary consumers |
front 23 What do food webs show? | back 23 How different food chain are interconnected |
front 24 Niche | back 24 The role each organism has in the ecosystem |
front 25 WHat are important to the ecosystem? | back 25 Scavengers and decomposers |
front 26 What happens to all atoms? | back 26 They are reused, recombined, and rearranged |
front 27 Abiotic factors | back 27 Nonliving parts of an ecosystem Ex: water and air |
front 28 Biotic Factors | back 28 Living parts in an ecosystem Ex: fungi and animals |
front 29 Phytoplankton | back 29 A pond's most important producer |