Ecosystem

Question 1

Photosynthesis

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Carbohydrates

Answer 2

another word for sugar molecules or food

Question 3

Chloroplast

Answer 3

a plants organelle responsible for capturing sunlight to make sugar

Question 4

Producer

Answer 4

an organism that makes its own food

Question 4

Cellular respiration

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Chlorophyll

Answer 5

a green pigment found inside a plants leaves

Question 6

Autotrophs

Answer 6

another word for producer

Question 7

Heterotrophs

Answer 7

another word for consumer

Question 7

Consumers

Answer 7

organism that get their energy by eating other organisms

Question 8

Herbivores

Answer 8

plant eaters

Question 9

Carnivores

Answer 9

meat eaters

Question 10

Omnivores

Answer 10

eaters of everything

Question 11

Decomposers

Answer 11

consumers that get their food by breaking down dead organisms

Question 12

Food chain

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Food web

Answer 13

A diagram that shows many feeding relationships in an ecosystem

Question 14

Trophic level

Answer 14

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