Ezra eats a cheese sandwich for lunch. Cheese contains a lot of protein, and bread is mostly starch. Ezra plans to play basketball later in the afternoon. He is breathing normally. What does Ezra need from the food he ate and the air he breathes so that he can play basketball? How do Ezra’s body systems work together to get the molecules he needs into his cells? How do his cells use these molecules to release energy for his body to run?

Ezra need glucose and protein from the food he ate and oxygen from the air he breathes so that he can happily play the basketball

4.) metal

"-the movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back to the environment

-carbon is the essential component of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates (which make up all organisms)

-carbon exists in air, water, and living organisms

-producers convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into carbohydrates during photosynthesis

-bacteria in the atmosphere cycles through the system in filtration units

-in cellular respiration, carbon is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide

-some carbon is stored in limestone (forming one of the largest "carbon sinks" on earth)

-largest carbon reservoir on earth= limestone

-carbon stored in the bodies of organisms as fat, oils, or other molecules may be released into the soil or air when the organism dies

-this may form deposits of coal, oil, or natural gas (fossil fuels, which increased the atmospheric carbon dioxide)

-fossil fuels store carbon left over from bodies of organisms that died millions of years ago

-they are located in the surface of earth, deep within the earth and beneath the ocean floor."