Ecosystem

Question 1

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

Answer 1

photosynthesis

Question 2

another word for sugar molecules or food

Answer 2

carbohydrates

Question 3

a plants organelle responsible for capturing sunlight to make sugar

Answer 3

chloroplast

Question 4

a green pigment found inside a plants leaves

Answer 4

chlorophyll

Question 5

process where organisms use oxygen to break down food

Answer 5

cellular respiration

Question 5

an organisms that makes its own food

Answer 5

producer

Question 6

another word for producer

Answer 6

autotrophs

Question 7

organism that gets energy by eating other organism

Answer 7

consumers

Question 7

another word for consumer

Answer 7

heterotrophs

Question 8

plant eaters

Answer 8

herbivores

Question 9

meat eaters

Answer 9

carnivores

Question 10

eaters of everything

Answer 10

omnivores

Question 11

consumers that their food by breaking down dead organisms

Answer 11

decomposers

Question 12

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

Answer 12

food chain

Question 13

a diagram that shows many feeding relationships in an ecosystem

Answer 13

food web

Question 14

each step in transfer of energy through a food chain or food web

Answer 14

trophic level

Question 15

how is energy transferred?

Answer 15

plant uses energy from sunlight to make sugar and then its passed on to consumers

Question 16

describe one way consumer?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

list two types of consumers

Answer 17

primary consumer(cow) and secondary consumer(lion)