Category 1
The process where plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce sugar and oxygen
What is photosynthesis?
A waste product produced by plants during photosynthesis that animals use for
What is oxygen?
a gas produced by cells during respiration; used in photosynthesis to produce sugar
What is carbon dioxide?
The compound produced through photosynthesis which plants use as food
What is Glucose?
Change from one form to another
What is convert?
A substance that produces power or energy
What is fuel?
any living thing
What is an organism?
energy from the sun that reaches Earth as visible light, ultraviolet and infrared
What is radiant energy?
a material that cannot be broken down into anything simpler (example: O (oxygen))
What is an element?
When two or more elements combine (example: CO2) (carbon dioxide)
What is a compound?
the space and all the living and nonliving things around an organism
What is the environment?
all of the living and nonliving things in an area and the interactions among them (ecosystems; land; aquatic ecosystems; water)
What is the ecosystem?
A biome where salt water from oceans mixes with freshwater from rivers
What is estuary?
An organism that consumes dead or decayed nonliving biomass without need for its digestion (fungi; mushroom, mold)
What is a decomposer?
an organism that makes its own food
What is a producer?
an organism that gets energy from eating another organism
What is a consumer?
consumers that eat only plants
What is a herbivore?
consumers that eat only animals
what are carnivores?
consumers that eat both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
a path of energy transfer from one organism to another
What is a food chain?
an interconnected set of food chains
What is a food web?
to grow well or strong
What is thrive?
a non-native plant or animal that has been introduced into an environment and new impacts the environments ecosystem
What are invasive species?
Living parts of an ecosystem
What is biotic?
Nonliving parts of an ecosystem
What is abiotic?