Matter and Energy in Organisms

Why is the ability to move important to animals?

• to help them stay warm

• to help them obtain oxygen

• help them to differentiate cells

• to help them find food

What form of energy is stored in food

• heat

• light

• electrical

• energy in molecules

How do plants get energy?

How do organisms get energy?

What does this show?

• Each step of the carbon cycle

• how matter passes through the ecosystem

• how carbon is running out because it is being used up by all the animals

• how more carbon is consistently being formed and passed along

All matter has...?

• warmth

• ability to do work

• nutrients that contain energy

• has mass

How do consumers get energy to function?

• some from other organisms and some from sunlight

• convert light energy from the sun into chemical energy stored in food

• obtain all energy by eating other organisms

• by absorbing it from their environment