Lesson 1
Plants and Sunlight
Plants and Sunlight
Energy that comes from the sun is called what?
Solar energy
What is a food chain?
shows how energy is passed from one organism to another as food.
what is a food web?
shows how a group of food chains are linked together.
what are microorganisms?
living things too small to be seen with just our eyes.
what is a protist that lives in water?
algae
How do plants get energy?
Hint *what's the process called?*
photosynthesis
what helps break down organisms and return them to the soil as nutrients?
Decomposers
what is population?
The members of a single type of organism in an environment.
2 types of microorganisms that can be harmful to your body?
- Bacteria
- Protists
what is environment?
Everything that surrounds a living thing.
what do plants take in?
give me 3
- water/nutrients
- sunlight
- carbon dioxide
Animals/plants that can make their own food are called what?
producers
what did the sea urchins do? and how did it affect the fish/ocean life
eat a large supply of kelp, the sea stars/crabs began to die out
Give me 3 types of protists
- Algae
- Amoeba
- Euglena
What is biomass?
The measure of amount of living things in an environment.
What material gives plants their color?
Chlorophyll
If animals cannot make their own food what are they called?
consumers
what is an energy pyramid?
a model that shows how much energy flows through a food web
Fungi is a kind of what?
Decomposer
what are natural recyclers/what do they do?
plant/animal decomposers take matter that was once alive and change it to something new, they become part of the soil.
what are the tiny holes on a leaf called?
Stomata
3 part
animals that eat other animals are called?
animals that eat mainly plants are?
animas that eat both plants and animals?
carnivores
herbivores
omnivores
what happened in Australias sugar cane fields?
beetles/toads were eating everything in sight
Some microorganisms are like plants, how?
-they carry out photosynthesis/give off oxygen
- make their own food