Flow of Energy

Question 1

Ecosystem

Answer 1

An Ecosystem is where living and nonliving things live

Question 2

Producer

Answer 2

Producers are any kind of green plant. Green plants make their food by taking sunlight and using the energy to make sugar. The plant uses this sugar, also called glucose to make many things, such as wood, leaves, roots, and bark.

Question 3

Consumer

Answer 3

Consumer in a food chain are living creatures that eat organisms from a different population

Question 4

Decomposer

Answer 4

organism that breaks down dead organic material

Question 5

Food Chain

Answer 5

Food chain, in ecology, the sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.

Question 6

Food Web

Answer 6

A food web is all of the food chains in an ecosystem. Each organism in an ecosystem occupies a specific trophic level or position in the food chain or web.

Question 7

Photosynthesis

Answer 7

Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that, through cellular respiration, can later be released to fuel the organism’s metabolic activities.

Question 8

Cellular Respiration

Answer 8

Cellular respiration, the process by which organisms combine oxygen with foodstuff molecules, diverting the chemical energy in these substances into life-sustaining activities and discarding, as waste products, carbon dioxide and water.