Conference 4 - Student Response 2

Matter, whether it is gas, liquid or solid, is made up of the bonding of atoms. This bonding results in either molecules or compounds; molecules consisting of two or more atoms bonded together in a specific way and compounds consisting of two or more different kinds of atoms. Molecules may contain two or more of the same kinds or different kinds of atoms bonded together. Compounds always contain at least two different kinds of atoms. Matter occupies space and has mass but cannot move without energy. Energy affects atoms, for example by heat or vibration, and changes the position or state of matter.

Regarding the use of energy for movement, are there molecules, compounds, or atoms that can move in the dark, since the sun is the ultimate source of the Earth's energy?  This may sound facicious, but the logoc follows that for motion there must be an energy source.  As we know the motion of an atom is regulated by the movement of electrons around a nucleus of negatively charged protons and uncharged neutrons.  Any insight to this phenomenon form anyone?

An ecosystem naturally runs on solar energy. The energy is recycled through living organisms and back in to the environment. All ecosystems must have energy to exist. Energy moves from one trophic level to another or escapes as heat energy.

Responding to your assertion that energy is recycled back through an ecosystem trhough organisims I must disagree.  We have learned that energy is never created or destroyed, but moves from one level to the next.  This said, energy is not really recycled, but changes from one level to the next and as you have said is realeased as heat energy.  From what I've read heat energy is recoded in the infrared scale of light.

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