Plants and Photosynthesis
This part of the plant anchors it to the ground and absorbs nutrients and water.
What are roots?
The original source of energy in most ecosystems.
What is the sun?
This biome is characterized by very little rainfall and extreme temperatures.
What is a desert?
Thick fur is an adaptation for living in these types of climates.
What are cold climates?
The process by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
The green pigment in plants that absorbs sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
This term describes animals that primarily eat plants.
What are herbivores?
This is the coldest biome, located at the poles.
What is the tundra?
These structures in plants allow them to absorb sunlight for photosynthesis.
What are leaves?
The cycle that involves the movement of water between the atmosphere, land, and oceans.
What is the water cycle?
The process by which oxygen is released into the atmosphere as a by-product of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen production?
A simple model that shows how energy and nutrients flow from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
A wet biome with many trees, high rainfall, and biodiversity.
What is a rainforest?
The term for adaptations that help an organism blend into its environment.
What is camouflage?
This cycle describes how carbon atoms move through the ecosystem.
What is the carbon cycle?
The plant organ where photosynthesis mainly occurs.
What is the leaf?
These animals are at the top of the food chain and have no predators.
What are apex predators?
Name for the biome characterized by grasslands with few trees, found on several continents.
What is a savanna?
Type of adaptation that allows animals like bats and dolphins to detect objects using sound waves.
What is echolocation?
The name of the process where water vapor cools and changes back into liquid during the water cycle.
What is condensation?
The simple sugar produced during photosynthesis that provides energy for the plant.
What is glucose?
The complex network of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
The largest biome in the world, covering most of the Earth's surface with water.
What is the ocean?
This adaptation helps organisms escape predators quickly, such as the ability to run fast.
What is speed?
The cycle that explains the process by which nitrogen is converted between its various chemical forms in the environment, essential for protein synthesis in plants.
What is the nitrogen cycle?