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 plant’s organelle responsible for capturing sunlight to make sugar.
Chloroplast
A green pigment found inside a plant’s 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
Autrophs
Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms.
Consumers
Another word for consumer.
Heterotrophs
Plant eaters
Herbivores
Meat eaters
Carnivores
Eaters of everything
Omnivores
Consumers that get their food from breaking down dead organisms.
Decomposers
A sequence where energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats another organisms.
Food chain
A diagram that shows many feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
Food web
Each step in the transfer of energy through a food chain or food web.
Trophic level
How is energy transferred?
Plants use energy from sunlight to make sugar and then it then passes on to consumers.
Describe one way consumers depends on producers,
Depends on producers: cow need to eat grass to get energy.
List two types of consumers.
Primary consumer (cow) and secondary consumer (lion).
