HMH Biology

What is a decomposer?

• a series of one organism eating another to obtain energy usually beginning with a producer

• a consumer that eats BOTH plants and animals

• organisms that break down dead organisms and waste material and return the raw materials to the environment

• a consumer that eats ONLY plants

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What type of energy do organisms get from food?

• light

• kinetic

• chemical

• mechanical

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Anything that takes up space and has mass is...

• Matter

• Work

• Power

• Newton's 1st Law

an organism that needs to eat in order to get energy storage molecules is called this.

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• starving

an organism that gets energy storage molecules by breaking down dead matter is called this.

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

• hungry

A group of atoms joined together in a particular way is called a _____________.

• molecule

• system

• mass

• group

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All living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria are called this.

• organism

• organs

• orca

• oregon

This is an organisms that can make its own energy storage molecules.

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• eater

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How do plants get energy?

• by eating other organisms

• from the soil

• through a reaction called chlorophyll

• from the sun

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The Law of Conservation states:

• Matter can be created or destroyed but not transformed

• Matter cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed

• Matter can't be created, destroyed or transformed

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