Lesson 3: Energy and Matter

Front

What all life on Earth needs for cell processes

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energy

Front

Another way that organisms get energy, other than using light/chemical energy to make food

Back

eating other organisms

Front

How energy travels through organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems

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a flow

Front

Energy does not return to its source, as matter does in a ______________

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cycle

Front

Who changes the energy available in their environment into food energy?

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Producers

Front

A chemical process that plants, algae, and some microorganisms use to change light energy from the sun into food energy

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photosynthesis

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What some producers use to change chemical energy into food energy

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chemosythesis

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Cannot make their own food and get energy by eating other organisms

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Consumers

Front

What herbivores consume

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only producers

Front

What carnivores consume

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only other consumers