Matter and Ecosystem Vocab

A molecule that organisms can use to release energy, and that is made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen

• Glycogen
• Organism
• Glucose
• Ecosystem

Living things, such as plants, animals and bacteria

• Consumer
• Producer
• Biome
• Organisms

A molecule made of carbon and oxygen atoms

• Oxygen
• Decomposer
• Carbon Dioxide
• Hydrogen

A molecule that organisms can use to release the energy they need to survive

• Biomes
• Force
• Energy Storage Molecules
• Glucose

Matter that makes up the living and dead organisms in an ecosystem

• Biome
• Abiotic Matter
• Consumer
• Biotic Matter

An organism that needs to eat in order to get ESM (like starch and fat)

• Producer
• Resource Population
• Consumer
• Decomposer

Matter that makes up the nonliving parts of an ecosystem, such as air, water, and rocks

• Abiotic Matter
• Biotic Matter
• Ecosystem
• Chloroplasts

A Process by which plants and other producers use energy from sunlight to exchange carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose

• Cellular Respiration
• Carbon Dioxide
• Photosynthesis
• Glucose

A type of atom that makes up molecules such as carbon dioxide and ESM

• Carbon
• Energy Storage Molecules
• Glucose
• Hydrogen

An organism that gets ESMs by breaking down dead matter

• Consumer
• Producer
• Decoposer
• Ecosystem