Matter Cycling and Photosynthesis

​Deep down in the ocean a whale falls to the ocean floor creating an abundance of commotion.  When the dead whale carcass lands on the ocean floor, eelpouts and octopuses eat the __________.  Both organisms breathe in the little __________ that exists.

• decaying meat, oxygen

• plants, carbon dioxide

• decaying meat, carbon dioxide

• plants, oxygen

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

​ Snort worms break down the whale's bones to extract the ___________.   Snot worms also take in __________and release ___________. 

• Glucose, oxygen, carbon dioxide

• fats and proteins, oxygen, carbon dioxide

• fats and proteins, carbon dioxide, oxygen

Krill eat phytoplankton (tiny floating plants)

What level of the food pyramid do they belong?

• Producer

• 1st level consumer

• 2nd level consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Blue whales eat krill.

What level of the food pyramid do they belong?

• Producer

• 1st level consumer

• 2nd level consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Phytoplankton are tiny floating plants.

What level of the food pyramid do they belong?

• Producer

• 1st level consumer

• 2nd level consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

In class, a student accidentally dropped a bottle of their favorite perfume on the classroom floor.  The entire room began to smell like the perfume and even out into the hallway.  Students in the hallway could smell the perfume because of what process?

• Diffusion - The scent moved from an area of high concentration to low concentration.

• Osmosis - The scent traveled through water from an area of high concentration to low concentration.

​In plants, leaves are the sight of __________________. 

For this process, the plant needs to bring in and release gasses through the _________________. ​

• Cellular Respiration, Stomata

• Cellular Respiration, Xylem

• Photosynthesis, stomata

• Photosynthesis, Xylem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The plants use _________________ to bring carbon dioxide gas into the leaf moving it from high and low concentration.

• Osmosis

• Diffusion

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which organisms make their own food?

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which organism breaks down dead things into smaller pieces?