Topical+Essential+Questions

TOPICAL ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. How is the relationship between energy and matter?
 * Energy is the motion that matter can have
 * E=MC^2
 * Matter and energy are "different forms of the same thing"
 * Matter can be turned into energy, and energy into matter

2. How is energy significant to biological system?

3. Can an organism survive without the exchange of matter with its environment? No, an organism depends on the exchange of matter with its environment for survival.

4. Are all matters living and all living organisms made of matter? Not all matters are living, but all living organisms are made up of matter

5. Can living organisms create and destroy energy? No, energy cannot be created nor destroyed.

6. Can living organisms create and destroy matter? No, matter cannot be created nor destroyed.