Ecosystem Restoration -Ch. 3

Where do plants obtain most of the materials then need from? (choose 2)

• Air

• Soil

• Water

• Animals

Where does energy in an ecosystem come from?

• Air

• Sun

• Water

• Plants

Soil in a healthy rainforest is made up of many types of matter. This matter is made of ___ and ___ things such as air, rocks, water, and nutrients.

• Producers and consumers

• Nutrients and food

• Nutrients and energy

• Non living and living organisms

Louisiana Black Bears Conservation: Their habitat is being destroyed by removing trees, and they cannot find enough food so these bears have to find ___.

• new food source

• more energy

• more sunlight

• other trees for shelter

Uses and stores energy from the sun, which flows to all other life-forms

• Organism

• Consumer

• Producer

• Decomposer

eats or consumes other living things for food

• Decomposer

• Organism

• Producer

• Consumer

breaks down the unused dead material and turns them into nutrients in the soil, which plants use to grow

• Decomposer

• sun

• organism

• producer

Decomposers release ___ from dead plants and animals in the soil.

• Energy

• Nutrients

• Food

• Water

Animals, plants, and decomposers grow by changing ___ molecules into ___ molecules that can build their bodies

• energy --> body

• body --> food

• food --> body

• nutrient --> energy

Animals, plants, and decomposers use some food molecules to release ___ for movement and growth.

• Energy

• Nutrients

• Body molecules

• Organisms