Cycles of Matter

Producer --> organisms that gain energy by making their own food, goes through photosynthesis

Consumer --> organisms that need to eat other organisms to gain energy.

Decomposer--> organism that breaks down dead organisms and returns nutrients back to the soil.

Photosynthesis --> process that plants go through to produce food and release oxygen to humans.

Respiration --> The breathing process

ALL Organisms need nitrogen

About 78 % of our air is nitrogen

We CANNOT use the "free nitrogen" in the air that is why it must be "fixed" first.

Plants get nitrogen through their roots from the soil.

Animals get nitrogen by consuming other things that have nitrogen in them (plants or other animals)