Ecosystem Restoration Chapter 1 Review

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What happens to food molecules in an animal's body?

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Some are used to make body molecules, AND some are released as energy that helps the animal move and grow.

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What is the source of all energy?

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The sun.

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Animals grow by ________

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Changing food molecules into body molecules that can build their bodies.

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What do we call all the living and nonliving things in an area?

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Environment.

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After a zebra eats grass, what happens to the grass molecules inside the zebra?

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There is a chemical reaction taking place in which the grass molecules are turning into zebra body molecules.

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What is an ecosystem?

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A community of living organisms and their interactions with their environment.

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What are producers in an ecosystem?

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Organisms that make their own food, usually through photosynthesis, like plants.

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What role do consumers play in an ecosystem?

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Consumers are organisms that eat other organisms for energy.

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What is a habitat?

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The natural home or environment of an organism.

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What is the process of photosynthesis?

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The process by which green plants use sunlight to synthesize foods with the help of chlorophyll.