ecosystem vocabulary

Question 1

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

Answer 1

photosynthesis

Question 2

another word for sugar molecules or food

Answer 2

carbohydrates

Question 3

a plant’s organelle responsible for capturing sunlight to make sugar

Answer 3

chloroplast

Question 4

a green pigment found inside a plant’s leaves

Answer 4

chlorophyll

Question 5

process where organisms use oxygen to break down food(sugar) to produce energy

Answer 5

cellular respiration

Question 6

an organism that makes its own food

Answer 6

producer

Question 7

another word for producer

Answer 7

autotrophs

Question 8

organisms that get their energy by eating other organism

Answer 8

consumers

Question 9

another word for consumer

Answer 9

heterotroph

Question 10

plant eaters

Answer 10

herbivores

Question 11

carnivores

Answer 11

meat eaters

Question 12

eaters of everything

Answer 12

omnivores

Question 13

consumers that get their food from breaking down dead organisms

Answer 13

decomposers

Question 14

a sequence where energy is transferred from one organism to another

Answer 14

food chain

Question 15

a diagram that shows many feeding relationships in an ecosystem

Answer 15

food web

Question 16

each step in the transfers of energy through a food chain or food web

Answer 16

trophic levels

Question 17

how is energy transferred

Answer 17

plants use energy through a food chain or food web

Question 18

describe one way consumers depend on producers

Answer 18

cows need to eat grass to get energy

Question 19

list two types of consumers

Answer 19

primary consumer and secondary consumer