Ecosystem Flashcards
a process where plants use sunlight, Carbon dioxide, and water to produce glucose (sugar)
photosynthesis
Another word for sugar molecules or food
Carbohydrates
A plants organelles responsible for capturing sunlight to make sugar
Chloroplast
A green pigment found inside a plants leaves
Chlorophyll
process where organisms use oxygen to break down food (sugar) to produce energy
Cellular respiration
An organism that makes its own food
Producer
Another word for producer
Autotrophs
Consumers
Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms
Heterotrophs
Another word for consumer
Herbivores
Plant eaters
Carnivores
Meat eaters
Omnivores
eaters of everything
Decomposers
consumers that get their food from breaking down dead organisms
Food chain
A sequence where energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats another organism
Food web
a diagram that shows many feeding relationships in an ecosystem
Trophic level
each step in the transfer of energy through a food chain or food web
How is energy transferred ?
Plant uses energy from sunlight to make sugar and then is passed on to consumers
Describe one way consumers ?
depends on producers : cows need to eat grass to get energy
List two types of consumers
primary consumer (cow) and secondary consumer (lion)
