ecosystems

Question 1

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

Answer 1

photosynthesis

Question 2

another word for sugar molecules

Answer 2

carbohydrates

Question 3

a plants organelle responsible for capturing sunlight to make sugar

Answer 3

chloroplast

Question 4

a green pigment found inside a plants leaf

Answer 4

chlorophyll

Question 5

process where organisms use oxygen to break down food 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 organisms

Answer 8

consumer

Question 9

another word for consumer

Answer 9

heterotrophs

Question 10

plant eaters

Answer 10

herbivores

Question 11

meat eaters

Answer 11

carnivores

Question 12

eaters of all

Answer 12

omnivores

Question 13

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

Answer 13

food chain

Question 14

consumers that get their food by breaking down dead organisms

Answer 14

decomposers

Question 15

each step I transfer of energy through a food chain or food web

Answer 15

trophic level

Question 15

a diagram that shows many feeding relationships in a ecosystem

Answer 15

food web

Question 16

depends on producers: cows need to eat more grass to get energy

Answer 16

one way consumer

Question 16

plant uses energy from sunlight to make sugar and then is then passes on to consumers

Answer 16

how is energy transferred

Question 17

primary consumer and secondary consumer

Answer 17

two types of consumer