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Anything that has mass
Anything that has volume
Ex: rainfall, rocks, soil, animals, plants
Environment
Exists as a solid, liquid, or gas
Matter
Energy
Recycle
Old materials are made into new ones
Uses less energy
Method of conservation
Ability to do work
Ability to cause a change
Needed for movement and growth
Changes form but is never destroyed
Anything that takes up space
Made up of living things
Made up of nonliving things
Everything that surrounds a living thing
Scrap metal, soft drink cans, plastic, etc.
Makes its own food
Individual living thing
Able to grow and reproduce
Source of food for other organisms
Made up of one or more cells
Organism
Example: Plants
Producer
Consumer
Feeds on dead plant or animal matter
Example: Animals
Example: Bacteria
Also called heterotroph
Feeds on other living things
Decomposer
Example: Fungi
Gets energy from other living things
Captures energy from sunlight
Largest level of organization in a living thing
Breaks down dead plant or animal matter
Transfer
Example: Plants
Example: Bacteria
Biotic
Abiotic
How much matter an object has
Living things have it
Example: sunlight
Example: rainfall
Mass
Non-living things have it
Non-living things in an ecosystem
Example: soil
Example: Animals
To change from one place to another
Living things in an ecosystem
To pass from one to another
Ex: Matter & Energy
To remove from one place to another
A measurement