Mighty Green Giants (Photosynthesis)
Plants and trees release this into the atmosphere
What is oxygen?
True or False: All living things use cellular respiration
What is true?
True or False: The amount of carbon in an ecosystem is always increasing
What is false?
Give one example of each: a producer, a consumer, and a decomposer?
What are trees, lions, and mushrooms? (or any other combination of producers, consumers, and decomposers)
a closed ecosystem made by humans
biodome
Trees and plants absorb this from the air
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The products of cellular respiration
What are CO2, H2O and usable energy?
Name one place CO2 comes from (There are many)
What are humans, cars, factories, animals, etc.?
Explain what a decomposer is
What is an organism that consumes dead things?
matter that makes up the living and dead organisms in an ecosystem
biotic matter
For photosynthesis to happen, plants need CO2, H2O, and ___________
What is sunlight?
Organisms break this stored energy down during cellular respiration
What is glucose?
CO2 is produced by many organisms through cellular respiration. What is the process that uses CO2?
What is photosynthesis?
Which group carries out photosynthesis: consumers, producers, or decomposers?
What are producers?
an organism that gets energy storage molecules (such as glucose) by breaking down dead matter
decomposer
Plants make this molecule (I'm not talking about oxygen)
What is glucose (or sugar/energy storage molecules)?
A tortoise is sitting in a closed tank in the sun on a warm day, what is happening to the level of CO2 around the tortoise?
What is increasing?
A herd of deer lives in a forest where they eat the leaves of trees. The number of energy storage molecules in the trees and in the deer has increased. What has happened to the amount of carbon in the trees and in the deer?
What is increase?
Scientists are studying cellular respiration in a river ecosystem that has plants, animals, and decomposers (which consume dead things). Which group(s) of organisms, listed above, in the river carry out cellular respiration?
What is all of the organisms in the river?
the part of a cell where cellular respiration happens
mitochondria
The part of the plant cell where photosynthesis takes place
What is the chloroplast?
The part of the cell where cellular respiration takes place
What is the mitochondria?
Giant kelp are plantlike organisms that grow in clear ocean water. Over the last few hours some kelp has been taking in carbon from the water around it. Is the kelp in sunlight? Y/N?
What is yes?
This space station has plants growing inside it, and astronauts who eat the fruits and vegetables from those plants. The sensors in the space station show that carbon dioxide in the air is increasing. What group of organisms (producers, consumers, or decomposers) should we add more of to decrease the CO2 level in the space station?
Who are producers?
the process by which plants and other producers use energy from sunlight to change carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose (an energy storage molecule)
photosynthesis