Matter & Energy Flow

Question 1

What is a Food Chain?

Answer 1

A single pathway that shows how food flows through organisms in an ecosystem

Question 2

What is a Product?

Answer 2

Element that is PRODUCED by a reaction

Question 3

What is Water?

Answer 3

H2O ; liquid or vapor that is a reactant of photosynthesis and a product of respiration

Question 4

What is a Food Web?

Answer 4

All of the food chains in an Ecosystem

Question 5

What is Chlorophyll?

Answer 5

Green pigment in chloroplasts that absorbs energy from sunlight

Question 6

What is Energy?

Answer 6

The ability to do something. It cannot be created or destroyed

Question 7

What is an Ecosystem?

Answer 7

Area where living organisms interact with each other and their environment

Question 8

What is a Stomata?

Answer 8

Tiny openings on a plant’s leaves that allow gas exchange; key part in photosynthesis

Question 9

What is Glucose?

Answer 9

Sugar/C6H12O6 ; Energy produced during photosynthesis and is a reactant in cellular respiration

Question 10

What is a producer/autotroph?

Answer 10

An organism that makes it’s own food

Question 11

Oxygen

Answer 11

O2 : gas that is a product of Photosynthesis and a reactant of cellular respiration

Question 12

What is Matter?

Answer 12

Something that occupies space and has mass

Question 13

What is Carbon Dioxide?

Answer 13

C02 ; A gas that is a product of cellular respiration and a reactant of photosynthesis

Question 14

What is a Carbon Cycle?

Answer 14

The carbon cycle is the movement of carbon between the atmosphere, oceans, land, and living organisms

Question 15

What is ATP?

Answer 15

Chemical compound that cells use to store and release energy; product of cell respiration

Question 16

What is a Reactant?

Answer 16

Element that ENTERS/IS USED IN a reaction

Question 17

What is Cell Respiration?

Answer 17

Cellular respiration is the process by which cells break down glucose and to produce energy in the form of ATP

Question 18

Another name for Consumers

Answer 18

Heterotrophs

Question 19

What is Mitochondria?

Answer 19

Cell organelle where cellular respiration takes place to make ATP

Question 20

What is a Chloroplast?

Answer 20

Where photosynthesis takes place also contains chlorophyll

Question 21

Another name for Producers

Answer 21

Autotrophs

Question 22

What is a consumer/heterotroph?

Answer 22

An organism that obtains energy by eating other animals

Question 23

What is Photosynthesis?

Answer 23

Process where a producer uses sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen

Question 24

What is a Biosphere?

Answer 24

A part of Earth where life exists

Question 25

What are Fossil Fuels?

Answer 25

Materials like coal, oil, and natural gas formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals over millions of years that are burned as fuel

Question 26

What is a decomposer?

Answer 26

Organism that breaks down decaying organisms and waste

Question 27

How much ATP is in aerobic respiration?

Answer 27

38

Question 28

How much ATP is in anaerobic respiration?

Answer 28

2

Question 29

Does aerobic respiration need oxygen?

Answer 29

Yes

Question 30

Does anaerobic respiration need oxygen?

Answer 30

No

Question 31

What is a grana?

Answer 31

A stack of thylakoid

Question 32

What is a thylakoid?

Answer 32

Pouch-like sacs that are bound to a membrane in the chloroplasts of a plant cell

Question 33

How many phosphates groups are in ATP?

Answer 33

Three

Question 34

What is a stroma?

Answer 34

A gel-like substance surrounding thylakoid in the chloroplast