Let's Do Science 5 – Text Book A

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Goshawk feeding on a Eurasian magpie.

House Sparrows feeding ding ng on a raspberry cane.

Obtaining and d Using sing Energy Ene

Plants are organisms that use the energy in sunlight to produce food.

All organisms need d energy ergy to carry carr car out life processes. Life processes rocesses esses include includ growth, reproduction and nd the he repair and an maintenance of structures. Some like many e organisms, organism organis animals, use move their body parts e energy ergy to mov or to move ve from om place to t place. Different energy in ent organisms obtain o different erent ways. Plants Plan are organisms that photosynthesize hotosynthesize synthesize – they capture light energy and from m the Sun an a convert it into food. The food throughout the plant. ood d is distributed distribu distrib Animals o obtain energy by eating other An A organisms. Fungi obtain energy by breaking orga organis down and absorbing the remains of organisms. dead org

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