flow of energy

Question 1

Ecosystem

Answer 1

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

Question 2

Producer

Answer 2

a person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale.

Question 3

Consumer

Answer 3

a person or thing that eats or uses something.

Question 4

Decomposer

Answer 4

an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.

Question 5

Food Chain

Answer 5

a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.

Question 6

Food Web

Answer 6

a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

Question 7

Photosynthesis

Answer 7

the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.

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.