Matter and Energy Flow

The ability to do work or cause change

living things, such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria

Non-living things

A system of living things and their environment

A model that shows how energy flows between living things

Two or more food chains mixed togehter

An organism that can make its own food.

An organism that eats other living things

An organism that eats other dead organisms to help break down nutrients to put back into the soil

An organism that obtains energy by eating only plants

An animal that obtains energy by eating animals

An animal that eats both plants and animals

Plants use the sun's energy to make food

Part of a plant cell where photosynthesis occurs

Part of a plant that absorbs sunlight and gives plants their green color

Small openings on the underside of a leaf through which oxygen and carbon dioxide can move

A sugar produced and used by a plant as food

A gas that is released by plants which people and animals breath in

A gas that is absorbed by a plant's leaves