Ecosystem Vocab Flashcards
A process where plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce glucose.
Photosynthesis
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 plants leaves
Chlorophyll
A process where organisms use oxygen to break down food to produce energy
Cellular respiration
an organism that makes its own food
Producer
another word for producer
Autotrophs
organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms
Consumers
another word for consumers
Heterotrophs
plants eaters
Herbivoirs
eaters of everything
Omnivoirs
meat eaters
Carnivoirs
consumers that get rid of food by breaking down dead organisms
Decomposers
A sequence where energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism is eaten by another
Food Chains
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
Plant uses energy from sunlight to make sugar and then it then passes on to consumers
How is Energy Transferred?
cows need to eat grass to get energy
Describe one way consumers depend on consumers
primary consumer and secondary consumer
List two types of consumers
