Ecosystem vocabulary

Question 1

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

Answer 1

photosynthesis

Question 2

another word for sugar molecule 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 to produce energy

Answer 5

cellular respiration

Question 6

an organism that makes its own food

Answer 6

producer

Question 7

anther word for producer

Answer 7

autotrophs

Question 8

organism that gets its energy eating other organisms

Answer 8

consumers

Question 9

another word for consumer

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

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trophic level

Question 17

plants use energy from sunlight to make sugar and then its passes on to other consumers

Answer 17

how is energy transferred

Question 18

cows need to eat grass to get energy

Answer 18

describe one way consumers depends on producers

Question 19

primary consumer and secondary consumer

Answer 19

list 2 types of consumers