Ecosystem vocab

Question 1

Photosynthesis

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Chloroplast

Answer 2

A plant’s organelle responsible for catching sunlight

Question 2

Carbohydrates

Answer 2

Another word for sugar molecules or food

Question 3

Chlorophyll

Answer 3

A green pigment found in plant leaves

Question 4

Cellular respiration

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Producers

Answer 5

Organisms that make their own food

Question 6

Autotrophs

Answer 6

Another word for producer

Question 7

Consumers

Answer 7

Organisms that get energy by eating other organisms

Question 8

Carnivores

Answer 8

Meat-eater

Question 8

Heterotrophs

Answer 8

Another word for consumer

Question 9

Herbivores

Answer 9

Plant-eaters

Question 10

Omnivores

Answer 10

Eaters of everything

Question 11

Decomposers

Answer 11

Consumers who get their energy by breaking down dead organisms

Question 12

Food chain

Answer 12

A sequence where energy is transferred from organism to organism as they are eaten

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 energy transfer in a food web/chain

Question 15

How is energy transferred?

Answer 15

Plants use energy from sunlight to make sugar that is passed on to a consumer

Question 16

Describe one-way consumers

Answer 16

Depends on producers: cows need to eat grass to get energy

Question 17

List a primary consumer

Answer 17

Cow eat producers

Question 18

List a secondary consumer

Answer 18

Lions eat cows