Ecosystem

Question 1

Photosythesis

Answer 1

a process where plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce glucose (sugar)

Question 2

Carbohydrates

Answer 2

Another word for Sugar molecules or food

Question 3

Chloroplast

Answer 3

A plant’s organelle responsible for capturing sunlight to make sugar

Question 4

Chlorophyll

Answer 4

A green pigment found inside a plant’s leaves

Question 5

Cellular Respiration

Answer 5

process where organism use oxygen to break down food (sugar)

Question 6

Producer

Answer 6

An organism that makes it’s own food

Question 7

Autotrophs

Answer 7

another word for producer

Question 8

Consumers

Answer 8

organisms that get their energy by eating other organism

Question 9

Heterotrophs

Answer 9

another word for consumer

Question 10

Herbivores

Answer 10

plant eaters

Question 11

Carnivores

Answer 11

Meat eaters

Question 12

Omnivore

Answer 12

eaters of everything

Question 13

Decomposers

Answer 13

consumers that get their food from breaking down dead organism

Question 14

Food Chain

Answer 14

a sequence where energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats another organism

Question 15

Food Web

Answer 15

a diagram that shows many feeding relationships in an ecosystem

Question 16

Trophic level

Answer 16

Each step in the transfer of energy through a food chain or food web

Question 17

How is energy transferred?

Answer 17

Plant uses energy from sunlight to make sugar and then is then passes on to consumers

Question 18

Describe one way consumers

Answer 18

depends on producers: cows need to eat grass to get energy

Question 19

List two types of consumers

Answer 19

Primary consumers (cow) and secondary consumers (lion)