Vocabulary
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
An aquatic producer, often found in lakes.
What is algae?
Eat.
How do consumers gain energy?
The sun.
What starts every food web?
Hot and dry ecosystem.
What is a desert?
A land dwelling organism.
What is a terrestrial organism?
Sugar/energy and oxygen.
What do plants produce?
Insects, giraffes, cows, and deer are all this type of consumer.
What is a herbivore?
A shorter, less detailed version of a food web.
What is a food chain?
A body part that helps an organism survive its environment.
What is a structural adaptation?
A non-native organism that can cause harm to the environment, economy, or human, animal, or plant health
What is an invasive species?
The part of the plant where photosynthesis happens.
What is the leaf?
Lion, tiger, alligator, polar bear.
What are carnivores?
Herbivores get their energy from this nutrient.
What is sugar/glucose?
Something an organism learns or the way an organism acts to help it survive its environment.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
The process by which plants use sunlight energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose (sugar), releasing oxygen, creating their own food, and providing the foundation for most life on Earth by replenishing atmospheric oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
The organelle in a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.
What is the chloroplast?
Bear, human, fish, bat.
What are omnivores?
Keeping balance in the ecosystem.
What is the job of the apex predator?
Frozen, icy ecosystem with not much wildlife.
What is the artic ecosystem?
A community of interacting organisms and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2
What is photosynthesis?
The consumer that keeps the ecosystem in balance.
What is an apex predator?
The flow of energy in an ecosystem.
What does a food web show?
This ecosystem is known for its wildlife, as well as producing of 40% of the oxygen on Earth.
What is the rainforest?