Keston NOPE!!!!!!!!!! Flashcards
Define photosynthesis
How producers make energy
Define Chlorophyll
A green pigment that plants use to harness sunlight
Define Cellular Respiration
Is when an organism’s cell’s take food and oxygen and change it into co2, heat, and energy
Define energy pyramid
A graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem
Define energy flow
How energy moves through an ecosystem
Define food web
A series of interlocking and independent food chains
Define food chain
A hierarchical series of organisms that all rely on the next for food
A producer?
An organism that can make it’s own food
Top consumer?
A predator with no natural predators.
carbon cycle?
A cycle showing how carbon moves around in a ecosystem.
Water cycle?
A Cycle showing how water moves in an ecosystem
Evaporation?
When water changes into it’s gas form and floats into the sky
Transpiration?
When water is evaporated from a plant, so it’s basically how plants pee
Condensation?
When evaporated water accumulates to form a cloud
Precipitation?
When water vapor condenses a lot and becomes too heavy to stay suspended. In short, it rains.
