Earth's Spheres
I am made of rocks, soil and landforms on Earth.
What is the geosphere?
The living things within an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
An organism that creates its own food or energy.
What is a producer?
This is where plants that grow without soil get matter from.
What is air and water?
I give the plant extra stability and structure.
What is a cell wall?
I am made up of everything that is alive on the earth.
What is the biosphere?
The non-living things within an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
An organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy.
What is a consumer?
This gives the plant the energy it needs to grow.
What is sunlight?
I am the material inside the cell membrane but outside of the nucleus.
What is cytoplasm?
I am made up of all the gases on Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
When two or more organisms rely on the same environmental resource.
What is competition?
An organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter.
What is a decomposer?
A component of air that plants use to make sugar and that plants and animals breathe out.
What is carbon dioxide?
I control what goes comes in and out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
I am made up of all the water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
The close relationship of two dissimilar organisms.
What is symbiosis?
I am a meat eater that eats primary consumers.
What is a secondary consumer?
The matter you could observe leaving the plant after it made food.
What is oxygen?
I capture energy from light for photosynthesis.
What is Chloroplasts?
I am the two spheres that interact to create a volcanic island.
What are the geosphere and hydrosphere?
This is the process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes over time.
What is ecological succession?
I show how all of the many living things in one ecosystem are connected to each other.
What is a food web?
Plants captures the energy from the sun and use it to convert water and carbon dioxide into this kind of carbohydrates.
What is sugar or glucose?
I am the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?