Energy in Food
How Plants Make Food
How Animals Use Food
Random Trivia
Trophic Spheres
100
How do plants get food?
They make it
100
Where can plants not live?
Where water is always frozen
100
What is the most obvious way that an animal uses energy?
movement
100
What happens if plants do not get enough time in the sun each day?
They do not stay healthy
100
What group make up the yellow level? (Ignore any words and just write the vocabulary we learned)
primary consumers
200
What is a producer?
They make their own food through photosynthesis
200
Plants use water and and carbon dioxide from the air to make a sugar called...
glucose
200
Name a locomotor movement
walk, run, chase, fly, sprint, swim...
200
What are two ways that plants use energy from food?
to grow and reproduce
200
What group make up the pink level? (Ignore any words and just write the vocabulary we learned)
tertiary consumers
300
What do primary consumers eat?
Plants
300
What do plants do in desert areas?
Store water when it becomes available
300
The speed of an ectotherm's metabolism depends on this
temperature
300
This process is where plants make sugar and give off oxygen into the air
photosynthesis
300
What group make up the green level? (Ignore any words and just write the vocabulary we learned)
producers
400
Describe an omnivore
Eats both plants and animals
400
Name something animals can get form eating plants
iron, potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen, energy
400
The collection of chemical processes that break down and build molecules in a living organism
metabolism
400
A substance that absorbs sunlight energy that gives plants their green color
Chlorophyll
400
What group make up the orange level? (Ignore any words and just write the vocabulary we learned)
secondary consumers
500
What do tertiary consumers do?
Convert and store about 10% of energy from the secondary consumers they eat
500
When plants open their stomata to take in carbon dioxide or release oxygen, water can exit plants and travel into the air during this process
transpiration
500
During this process, chemical energy stored in food is released to provide cells with energy they need to perform life processes
cellular respiration
500
Movements that do not transport the animal but involve movement of body parts at a fixed point
nonlocomotor movements
500
Name the four trophic levels
producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers