Ecosystem Flashcards
What is an ecosystem
A Living community of plants animals and the environment in which they live. The living things interact with their environment and with each other
Ecosystems can be any
Size or scale
Name three examples of ecosystems
Parks, garden, fields, forest, ponds, lakes, oceans, mountains t
What do all ecosystems have
Living elements such as plants animals humans and microorganisms and nonliving elements such as sunlight air rock and soil
What does every ecosystem start with
A plant or producer
What does the plant perform to make its own food
Photosynthesis
What goes into the leaf
Carbon dioxide
What does the chlorophyll form form
Glucose
What does the leaf release
oxygen
What is absorbed by the plant roots and carried to the leaves
Water
What is absorbed by the plants roots and has carried to the leafs 
Water
What turns carbon dioxide and water into glucose
Do suns energy
What along with minerals from the soil makes a plant grow
Glucose
What are minerals from the soil called
Nutrients
What is the number equation for photosynthesis
Co2 + H20 suns energy👉02 + glucose
