Once food has reached the sea floor, currents carry this food and organisms filter it without having to use their own energy to go and get food. Another way organisms use energy is by coming out at night and rising to feed on upper-level organisms.
Physical Science redirects here. It is not to be confused with Physics. Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science. It in turn has many branches, each referred to as a physical science, together called the physical sciences.
Physical science, the systematic study of the inorganic world, as distinct from the study of the organic world, which is the province of biological science. Physical science is ordinarily thought of as consisting of four broad areas: astronomy, physics, chemistry, and the Earth sciences. Each of these is in turn divided into fields and subfields. This article discusses the historical developmentâwith due attention to the scope, principal concerns, and methodsâof the first three of these areas.