Photosynthesis
Energy Flow
Cylces of Matter
Biomes
Vocabulary
100
In which process do producers use carbon from carbon dioxide to produce sugars?
What is photosynthesis
100
consumers that eat both plants and animals
What is omnivores
100
Process when molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change into a gas state.
What is evaporation
100
Hot in daytime, cool at night, very dry
What is desert
100
Makes their own food or a producer
What is autotroph
200
Needed for photosynthesis to occur.
What is sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
200
consumer that eats only meat
What is carnivore
200
The process by which gas turns to a liquid
What is condensation
200
Warm summers, cold winters, trees sehd their leaves and grow new ones each year
What is deciduous forest
200
the main pigment for photosynthesis in chloroplast
What is chlorophyll
300
Products of photosynthesis
What is sugars and oxygen
300
consumer that eats only plants
What is herbivore
300
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation
300
Extremely cold winters, warmer summers; windy; very dry; no trees; only low-growing plants
What is tundra
300
consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
What is food web
400
What would happen to the organisms if all the plants in the ecosystem could not perform photosynthesis.
What is the plants would die and then soon the consumers would die because they have no food.
400
Bacteria and fungi are known as ________________.
What is decomposers
400
Describe the oxygen cycle
What is producers relase oxygen as a result of photosynthesis. Then most organisms breath in the oxygen.
400
warm, rainy summers; very cold winters with heavy snow; trees produce cones with seeds that are eaten by many animals.
What is boreal forest
400
Group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
What is biome
500
Describe photosynthesis
What is energy being used to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars and oxygen.
500
These eat already dead animals.
What is a scavenger.
500
Describe the nitrogen cylce.
What is nitrogen moves from the air into the soil, into living things, and back inot the air or soil.
500
Populated by grasses and many large herbivores
What is grassland
500
the process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen
What is nitrogen fixation