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

Chlorophyll

Answer 4

a green pigment found inside a plants leaves

Question 5

Cellular respiration

Answer 5

process where organisms use oxygen to break down food to produce energy

Question 6

Producer

Answer 6

an organism that makes its own food

Question 7

Autotrophs

Answer 7

another word for producer

Question 8

Consumers

Answer 8

organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms

Question 9

Heterotrophs

Answer 9

another word for consumer

Question 10

Herbivores

Answer 10

plant eaters

Question 11

Carnivores

Answer 11

meat eaters

Question 12

Omnivores

Answer 12

eaters of everything

Question 13

Decomposers

Answer 13

consumers that get their food from breaking down dead organisms

Question 14

Food chain

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Food web

Answer 15

a diagram that shows many feeding relationships in an ecosystem

Question 16

Trophic level

Question 17

How is energy transferred?

Question 18

Describe one way consumers

Question 19

List two types of consumers