Photosynthesis
Contain chlorophyll for capturing sunlight.
What is the Chloroplast?
Small pores in plant leaves that facilitate gas exchange.
What is Stomata?
Enzyme that breaks down fats.
What is Lipase?
Front teeth for cutting and biting.
What are the Incisors?
Mechanical process of inhaling and exhaling air.
What is breathing?
What is the word equation for the process by which plants produce energy, serving as the primary source for animals?
What is "Carbon dioxide + Water + Sunlight → Glucose + Oxygen"?
What percentage of Energy is transferred to each organism in an eco-system?
What is 10%
For protein, fat, and starch, what are the ultimate or final products resulting from their digestion in the human digestive system?
What is amino acids for proteins, fatty acids for fats, and glucose for starch?
Pointed teeth for tearing food.
What are the Canines?
What cellular organelle is essential for aerobic respiration?
Mitochondria
Cells surrounding each stoma that help to regulate the rate of transpiration by opening and closing the stomata.
What is Guard Cells?
Ate each level in a Food Chain or Web, energy is lost as what?
What is heat?
What enzyme converts starch into maltose (e.g., salivary amylase).
What is amylase?
Broad, flat teeth for grinding and crushing.
What are the Molars?
The windpipe, a tube that connects the larynx to the bronchi.
What is the Trachea?
A green pigment in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
What is Chlorophyll?
Each level in a food chain or food web representing a position in the energy transfer.
What is Trophic Level
Name the sequential stages of human nutrition, highlighting the processes that take place?
What is ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and egestion?
Involves the action of enzymes and other chemicals to break down complex molecules into simpler forms that can be absorbed.
What is Chemical Breakdown?
Large air passages in the respiratory system that branch from the trachea?
What is the Bronchi
Explain how energy flows in a food chain
Energy flows from producers to primary consumers to secondary consumers
Organisms like bacteria and fungi that break down dead organisms and organic matter.
Breakdown of complex food molecules into simpler forms.
What is Digestion?
How do the structural adaptations of human teeth contribute to the mechanical breakdown of food, specifically during the process of mastication?
What is the varied shape and arrangement of teeth help in grinding, tearing, and chopping food during mastication?
Can you describe the route that oxygen takes from the air we breathe to reach the alveoli in the lungs?
Oxygen enters the respiratory system through the nose or mouth, travels down the trachea, branches into bronchi, and further into bronchioles until it reaches the alveoli in the lungs.