TIM Strategy for Unit A - Matter and Energy Cycling

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The regions of the surface, Everything living on the earth

atmosphere, and hydrosphere
Biosphere occupied by living organisms.

Level or position in a food Herbivores, carnivores, and

chain or pyramid of an omnivores
trophic level organism that have a similar
feeding mode.

An organism that is able to Plants are autotrophic

form nutritional organic because they use sunlight,
autotroph substances from simple CO2, and water to form their
inorganic substances such as own food
carbon dioxide.

An organism that cannot Organisms of a food chain

manufacture its own food and except producers
heterotroph instead obtains its food by
taking in organic substances.

Organic compounds by living Ammonia because they use

organisms using energy energy from reactions
chemosynthesis derived from reactions
involving inorganic
chemicals.

The branch of science that When ice melts in a room

deals with the relations temperature drink, it leaves
between heat and other the drink cooler.
thermodynamics forms of energy.

A representation in the form All organisms rankings in an

of a pyramid showing the ecosystem.
ecological pyramid (biomass, feeding relationships of
numbers, energy) groups of organisms. They
also show the flow of energy
or the amount of living
organisms in an area.