Vocabulary
All the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area
What is an ecosystem
True or False: Carbon can be biotic or abiotic
What is true
An organism that can make its own energy storage molecules
What is a producer
Plants get energy from this
What is the sun
Also known as a prediction or something you think will happen during an experiment
What is a hypothesis
Matter that makes up living and dead organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic matter
What is two
An organism that needs to eat in order to get energy storage molecules
What is a consumer
Plants create this that we as humans breathe
What is oxygen
A variable that does not depend on the other
Matter that makes up the nonliving parts of an ecosystem, such as air, water, and rocks
What is abiotic matter
Plants take in energy from the sun, water, and this molecule during photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide
An organism that breaks down dead organic material
What is a decomposer
Plants create this as well as oxygen during photosynthesis. It is alkso know as a sugar
What is glucose
A variable that depends on other factors measured in the experiment
What is dependent (variable)
A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole
What is a system
Carbon is a part of these, which give consumers energy (such as starches and fats)
What are energy storage molecules
This is tranferred into an ecosystem and never leaves but moves through different parts of it.
What is energy
This is the part of cellular respiration that takes in Oxygen and glucose to create energy, CO2, and H2O (also known as the powerhouse of the cell)
What is mitochondria
A variable that a researcher holds constant
What is controlled (variable)
The most necessary atom in an ecosystem and to life in general
What is carbon
This, along with decomposers, decreased in the biodome
What is carbon dioxide
The apex predator in the glacier sea food web
What is an orca whale
This is the part of the plant that takes in energy from the sun, CO2, and water to create Oxygen and glucose
What is a chloroplast
Things you make or record during an experiment
What is an observation