Plant Growth
The process in which plants make food through taking in sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water
What is photosynthesis?
Organisms at the base of every food chain that make their own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
A linear path showing how energy moves from one organism to another
What is a food chain?
This type of decomposer are tiny microscopic organisms that break down dead matter
What is bacteria?
This air is released from plants during photosynthesis
What is oxygen?
The gas absorbed from the surrounding air that provides most of a growing plant's mass.
What is carbon dioxide?
Organisms such as fungi and bacteria that break down dead organic matter and recycle essential nutrients into the soil.
What is a decomposer?
Overlapping food chains that shows how energy flows throughout an entire ecosystem
What is a food web?
All living things within an ecosystem such as plants and animals.
What is a biotic factor?
the ability to perform work or change something.
What is energy?
Tiny microscopic openings on the underside of plant leaves used for taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.
What is the stomata?
Consumers that eat only plants, such as grasshoppers and deer.
What is an herbivore?
All energy found transferred in a food chain or food web originated from where?
What is the Sun?
An animal that eats dead plants or dead animals.
What is a scavenger or what is a detritivore?
The simple sugar produced during photosynthesis that provides energy for plant growth.
What is glucose?
Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
What is a omnivore?
All the living and nonliving things, that interact with each other in an environment, make up one of these.
What is an ecosystem?
A human made or natural system where food scraps and yard waster turn back into soil.
What is composting?
A part of a plant that acts as a "straw" through the roots
What is the xylem?
The process of photosynthesis happens in this part of the plant that "cooks up" the inputs (carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water)
What is the chloroplast?
Organisms that cannot produce their own food and must consume other living things to get energy.
What is a consumer?
An "essential" organism in an ecosystem that is necessary for maintaining balance.
What is a keystone species?
All non living things within an ecosystem such as rocks, air, water, or dirt.
What is an abiotic factor?
A method for growing plants in water only, rather than soil and water, is called
What is a hydroponics?