STEMscopedia Matter Cycles STEMscopes

________ is constantly cycling between living things (plants, animals, and microbes) and nonliving things (air, water, soil).

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It is _________ from the body when animals breathe out. Plants take _____ carbon dioxide from the air to make their own food, and they release oxygen in the process.

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During this process, the organisms release ___________ into the air.

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Matter in the air makes a __________.

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What come first? The carbon dioxide? Or the oxygen?

• Carbon Dioxide

• Oxygen

• BOTH! It's a cycle!

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When a plant gets ________, this matter is ____________ by the animal that ate the plant.

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____________ help waste matter and dead organisms break down and _________ back to the environment.

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Matter __________ between organisms and their ____________.

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Decomposers, such as mushrooms, _________ _______ waste and dead organisms into nutrients that go back into the soil.

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