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Nutrients |
An organisms maintenance, and growth, is supported by this substance. |
2. You get energy from this. |
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Heterotrophs |
An organism that eats other things to get energy. |
2. Consumer |
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Autotrophs |
An organism that gets energy from nonliving organisms. |
1. Gets nutrients from sunlight. 2. Producers |
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Photoautotrophs |
An organism that forms its own food by obtaining energy from light. |
2. Forms own energy, an autotroph is one of them |
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Photosynthesis |
An organism, that has a set of chemical reactions that will use light energy to make their food. |
1. Something that absorbs sunlight, for energy. 2. Photoautotrophs |
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Chemoautotrophs |
An organism that obtains energy from a chemical energy. |
1. Bacteria 2.Geysers have _______ around them |
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Chemosynthesis |
Chemoautotrophs carry this out. It uses the chemical energy to produce the formation of organic molecules |
1. Very rare to happen 2. Happens underwater |
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Cell respiration |
All organisms use a set of chemical reactions to break down organic compounds and obtain energy |
1. Autotrophs 2. Heterotrophs |
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Producers |
Produces its own food. |
1. Autotroph 2. A plant is a ________ |
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Consumers |
Eats other things |
1. Consumer 2. We are all __________ |
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Decomposers |
An organism that decomposes other organisms to obtain energy |
1. Fungus are ______ 2. Bacteria is a _____ |
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Food web |
The ecosystems food chain |
2. A wolf will eat a rabbit, but so will a bear, this is called a _______ |
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Biotic |
All living things |
1. People are ______ 2. Animals are _______ |
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Abiotic |
Nonliving things |
1. Rocks 2. Wind |
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Ecosystem |
All abiotic, and biotic things in a particular place. |
1. Coral reef 2. Rain forest |
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Habitats |
It is a certain part of an ecosystem where certain organisms will live |
1. A bears natural ______ are the woods. 2. A fish's natural ______ is the ocean |
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Biosphere |
includes all ecosystems that are on earth |
1. The world |
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Energy |
Power that you can obtain from chemical resources or physical resources. |
1. There is light______ 2. There is also heat ______ |
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Chemical energy |
A molecule structure that energy is stored as |
1. Natural gas 2. Coals |
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Free energy |
Parts of chemical energy that is available to do work |
1. Every single chemical reaction involves this |
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Heat energy |
energy that has been moved to and from a unit. |
1. the sun 2. |
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First Law of Thermodynamics |
Energy can't be created or destroyed, can be converted into different forms |
1. Plant stores energy as kinetic energy 2. Sunlight energy------> chemical energy-----> Energy for cellular growth |
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Second Law of Thermodynamics |
Systems that tend to change, it increases the disorder of the system and surroundings |
1. Disorder increases 2. a lot of energy is lost as heat |
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Entropy |
Disorder |
1. Free energy decreases, disorganization increases |
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Enzymes |
activation energy that is lowered by proteins, which will allow for a faster reaction. |
1. Lock and key 2. A protein |
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Catalysts |
Any chemicals that will lower the activation energy |
1. Enzymes are biological energy 2. Reactions between other chemicals are being promoted by _____ |
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Active Site |
Small region in an enzyme structure that will match up with another small region of the reactants |
1. Lock and Key |
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Substrate |
Reactant (small region) |
1. Will react to something |
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Metabolism |
Happens in organisms with chemical changes |
1. Everyone has a ______ |
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Synthesis |
It is the building of chemical compounds from chemical reactions. |
1. Builds things from a chemical reactions. |
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Decomposition |
Breaking something down, to something smaller |
1. Fungus is a _____ 2. Bacteria is a_____ |
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Biosynthesis |
All living organism have the production of complex molecules. |
1. Consumes free energy 2. Helps organisms grow, and maintain their structure. |
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Oxidation |
A process of decomposition |
1. Removes electrons 2. Bonds are broken and rearranged |
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ATP |
Has 3 phosphate groups, cells will use it to store energy |
1. Plays an essential role in a cell 2. Cells store the energy |
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ADP |
remaining compound of a substance, when a phosphate group is removed from the sugar ATP |
1. Turns into a sugar when a phosphate group is removed 2. Substance that is remaining |