ecosystem Flashcards
(19 cards)
A process where plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to produce glucose(sugar)
Photosynthesis
Another word for sugar molecules for food
Carbohydrates
A plant’s organelle responsible for capturing sunlight to make sugar
Chloroplast
A green pigment found inside a plant’s leaves
Chlorophyll
A process where organisms use oxygen to break down food (sugar) to produce energy
Cellular Respiration
An organism that make it’s own food
Producer
another word for producer
Autorophs
Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms
Consumers
Another word for consumers
Heterotrophs
Plant eaters
Herbivores
Meat eaters
Carnivores
Eaters of everything
Omnivores
Consumers that get their food from breaking down dead organisms
Decomposers
A sequence that get their food from breaking down dead organisms
Food chain
A diagram that shows many feeding relationships in an ecosystem
Food web
each step in the transfer of energy through a food chain or food web
Trophic level
Plant uses energy from sunlight to make sugar and then is passed on to the consumers
How is energy transferred?
Cows need to eat grass to get energy
Describe one way consumers depends on producers
Primary consumer(cow) and secondary consumer(lion)
List two types of consumers