Energy and Change

The sun provides energy for plants to grow. The cows gain energy by eating the plants. The milk from the cows contain energy that is transferred to people when they drink the milk.

Energy is the ability to do work.

A living thing that makes its own food.

A living thing that can’t make its own food and gets energy from eating a producer’s food.

A living thing that gets energy from breaking down dead plants and animals

Sound energy Light energy Heat energy Movement energy

Remains of plants and animals that can be burnt to release energy. Coal and oil.

Energy sources that won’t run out like the sun and the wind.

Energy sources that will eventually out like oil and coal.

The energy out into a machine is called input energy and the energy that the machine gives off is called the output energy.

The sun

An animal that eats meat

An animal that eats plants

An animal that eats both plants and meat

Energy

Energy from the sun

nutrients

Stored energy, movement energy, heat energy, solar energy, chemical energy, sound energy, electrical energy, and light.

Outer ear, earlobe, auditory canal, ear drum, anvil, hammer, stirrup, cochlea Copy and paste: https://www.nde-ed.org/EducationResources/HighSchool/Sound/humanear.htm

Sound waves through the air; Outer ear catches the sound and sends it into auditory canal; Waves reach eardrum and make it vibrate; Vibrations travel through tiny bones called anvil, hammer, and stirrup in your middle ear; Vibration travels through inner ear; Nerve takes message to your brain; Your brain “hears” sound.

Nutrients are substances in food that living things need to live, to grow and to stay healthy.

The order in which the energy goes from sun to plant or animal.

The process by which energy goes from one part of the energy chain to another.

There would be no food - and we would all freeze.