Life: Matter and Energy

Why is the ability to move important to animals?

• It helps them find food

• It helps them stay warm

• It helps them obtain oxygen

• It helps them differentiate cells

What form of energy is stored in food?

• heat

• magnetic

• energy in molecules

• kinetic energy

How do organisms get the energy they need?

• Plants get energy from fertilizer, and animal get energy from water.

• Plants get energy from soil, and animals get energy directly from sunlight.

• Plants do not need energy, since they don't move. Animals get it from food.

• Plants get energy from sunlight and animals get energy from the food they eat.

The total amount of energy obtained by a rabbit in its lifetime in not passed on to a fox when it eats it. Since energy is not created or destroyed what happened to the other energy?

• The rabbit used it for life processes

• Living things change energy into matter

• Some energy disappears when they are eaten

• Only small amounts of energy is destroyed

TRUE or FALSE?
All of the carbon in existence is continually recycled in the carbon cycle.

• True
• False

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Earth has a fixed amount of _____.

• trees

• carbon

• animals

Not just energy flows from one living thing to another. ______, the particles that make up solids, liquids and gases, also pass from one living thing to another.

• Matter

• water

• air

• land

The amount of matter that we have on Earth is the same, but constantly being recycled.

• True

• False

Worms break down dead plants in the soil to release nutrients. Which property of nutrients shows that they are matter?

• Nutrients are warm

• Nutrients taste good

• Nutrients contain energy

• Nutrients have mass

How do consumers get their energy?

• They use the sun to make sugar

• They obtain all their energy from eating other organisms

• They get most of their energy from other organisms and the rest from the sun

• They get most of their energy from absorbing it from the environment.