Matter Cycle Concepts

Mixture of sand, silt, clay, rock, and humus (plant and animal remains)

• decomposer

• soil

• microbe

• interaction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A very small life form, especially a bacterium

• decomposer

• soil

• microbe

• interaction

Actions by one thing that have an effect on a different or separate thing

• decomposer

• soil

• microbe

• interaction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

An organism that consumes dead or nonliving biomass without need for internal digestion

• decomposer

• soil

• microbe

• interaction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Plants absorb from the air and combine it with water to produce their own food in a process called photosynthesis.

[Decomposers, Waste, Carbon dioxide, Interactions}

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

This matter, which is not usable by people, is necessary for plants.

[Decomposers, Waste, Carbon dioxide, Interactions}

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

There are many that occur within an ecosystem. A snake eating a mouse and a person watering a plant are examples of these relationships.

[Decomposers, Waste, Carbon dioxide, Interactions}

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

When an organism dies, its energy is returned to the soil by which are organisms that consume dead or nonliving biomass.

[Decomposers, Waste, Carbon dioxide, Interactions}

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3