Read the following excerpt and answer the question: scientists often refer to mushrooms as the "dark matter of biology" because we don't know much about them. mushrooms are not plants because they have no chlorophyll and cannot make their own food. they are actually fungi and absorb nutrients from their surrounding environments, and they can even thrive at the bottom of the ocean or in the middle of a desert! use your own words to summarize why mushrooms and plants differ in their needs to use radiant energy from the sun.

4. now look at the green lines you created by connecting the three boiling point data points and the three melting point data points. for each of these lines, describe any trends you see. 5. locate the elements on your periodic table that you circled in green on your graph. what term or description would you use to identify these elements with respect to the periodic table? 7. using the room temperature line (orange line) and your periodic table, make lists that identify the state of matter (gas, liquid, or solid) in which each element you plotted exists at room temperature. explain your answers.