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