Energy Flow
An organism that creates its own energy
What is a producer?
The four main elements of Life
What are Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen?
This process allows plants to make their own energy using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
This molecule provides energy for cellular respiration
What is glucose?
This reservoir stores carbon as a gas
What is the atmosphere?
What is a consumer?
The four main molecules of Life
What are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids?
The reactants (inputs) of photosynthesis
What are sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water?
This gas is required for cells to release energy from food
What is oxygen?
Plants store carbon in this form
What is sugar (glucose) or cellulose?
The source of virtually all energy in ecosystems
What is the sun?
The molecule that provides quick energy to your body
What are carbohydrates?
This sugar and this gas are the products (outputs) of photosynthesis
What are glucose and oxygen?
This organelle is where most cellular respiration occurs
What is the mitochondria?
What are plants?
The four trophic levels
What are producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, and tertiary consumer?
The unequal sharing of electrons in water molecules that makes them positively charged on one side and negatively charged on the other
What is polarity?
This green pigment inside plant cells captures sunlight for photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide?
This reservoir stores carbon underground for millions of years
What are fossil fuels?
The amount of energy in an owl if the owl eats 150 calories of mice.
What is 15 calories? (10% rule)
The properties of water that result from uneven sharing of electrons
What are cohesion, adhesion, and high heat capacity?
This is how energy is stored after photosynthesis
What are chemical bonds in sugar?
Explain cellular respiration in your own words
What is cells breaking down glucose to release energy?
This idea explains why carbon never "runs out" on Earth
Matter cannot be created or destroyed. Carbon is constantly moving between reservoirs.