Ecosystem

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Photosynthesis

Question 2

Another word for sugar molecules or food

Answer 2

Carbohydrate

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Chloroplast

Question 4

A green pigment found inside a plant’s leaves

Answer 4

Chlorophyll

Question 5

Process where organisms use oxygen to break down food (sugar) to produce energy

Answer 5

Cellular Respiration

Question 6

An organisms that makes its own food

Answer 6

Producers

Question 7

Another word for producers

Answer 7

Autotrophs

Question 8

Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms

Answer 8

Consumers

Question 9

Another word for consumers

Answer 9

Heterotrophs

Question 10

Plant eaters

Answer 10

Herbivores

Question 11

Meat eaters

Answer 11

Carnivores

Question 12

Eaters of everything

Answer 12

Omnivores

Question 13

Consumers that get their food from breaking down dead organisms

Answer 13

Decomposers

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Food chain

Question 15

A diagram that shows many feeding relationships in an ecosystem

Answer 15

Food web

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Trophic level

Question 17

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

Answer 17

How is energy transferred?

Question 18

Depends of producers: cows need to eat grass to get energy

Answer 18

Describe one way consumers

Question 19

Primary consumers (cow) and secondary consumers (lion)

Answer 19

List two types of consumer