ATP and Metabolism
The energy currency molecule that cells use to do work.
What is ATP?
The green pigment that traps sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
This word describes a process that requires oxygen.
What is aerobic?
The chemical formula for water.
What is H2O?
The original source of energy for almost every food chain.
What is the sun?
This organelle is the powerhouse because it makes ATP.
What is the mitochondria?
The organelle where photosynthesis happens.
What is chloroplast?
This process happens when your muscles run out of oxygen and feel sore.
What is fermentation?
The chemical formula for oxygen gas.
What is O2?
The diagram that shows who eats whom in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is an autotroph?
The gas that plants breathe in to make sugar.
What is carbon dioxide?
The gas humans breathe out as a waste product of respiration.
What is the carbon dioxide?
The chemical formula for carbon dioxide.
What is CO2?
This percentage of energy is passed from one level of a food pyramid to the next.
What is 10%?
An organism that has to eat other things for energy.
What is heterotroph?
The sugar produced during photosynthesis.
What is glucose?
The very first step of breaking down sugar, which happens in the cytoplasm.
What is glycolisis?
The chemical formula for Glucose.
What is C6H12O6?
These organisms, like fungi, get energy by breaking down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
When ATP loses a phosphate and release energy, it becomes this lower energy molecule.
What is ADP?
The gas that plants release as a waste product.
What is oxygen?
The number of ATP molecules made from one glucose in a perfect aerobic run.
What is 36?
These are the three reactants needed for photosynthesis.
What are water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight?
The most energy is found at this level of an energy pyramid.
What are the producers?