Cycling of Matter and Energy in an Ecosystem

What is a Food Web?

• A system of many food chain in an ecosystem of animals eating their prey and passing on energy.

• How a plant turns sunlight into energy and makes glucose.

• How carbon moves through Earth by water, atmosphere and some sediments.

What are the roles in a food web?

• Omivores, Herbivores and Carnviores.

• Chicken, Frog and Cat.

• Mountain, Hill and Lake.

• Producers, Consumers and Decomposers.

What do you call an organism that produces its own food?

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What is an organism that rely on other organisms for food?

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(a)  

What is the carbon cycle?

• How carbon is created.

• The process where carbon travels through the Earth in many ways.

• The process where carbon is destroyed and created.

• The cycle of where nitrogen travels through the Earth in many ways.

What is the nitrogen cycle?

• How plants die.

• How nitrogen explodes into carbon dioxide.

• The process where nitrogen travels through Earth in many ways.

• How nitrogen is created and destroyed.

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What is photosynthesis?

• The process where glucose gets turned into energy.

• The process where a plant turns sunlight into glucose.

• The way plants die.

• The way plants get born.

What is cellular respiration?

• The process where the plant dies and gives off seeds to future generations.

• How humans are able to breathe.

• The process where the plant turns glucose into energy to survive.

• How our cells breathe.