Ecosystem Flaschcards

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

Carohydrates

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

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

Answer 5

Cellular Respiration

Question 6

An organism that makes its own food

Answer 6

Producer

Question 7

Another word for producer

Answer 7

Autotrophs

Question 8

Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms

Answer 8

Consumers

Question 9

Plant eaters

Answer 9

Herbivores

Question 9

Another word for consumer

Answer 9

Heterotrophs

Question 10

Eaters of everything

Answer 10

Omnivores

Question 10

Meat eaters

Answer 10

Carnivores

Question 11

Consumers that get their food from breaking down dead organisms

Answer 11

Decomposers

Question 12

A sequence where energy is 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 the 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 is then passes on to consumers

Question 16

Describe one way consumers depends on producers:

Answer 16

Cows need to eat grass to get energy

Question 17

List two types of consumers:

Answer 17

Primary consumer (cow) and secondary consumer (lion)