Photosynthesis & Cellular Respiration
This process occurs in plants and uses sunlight to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
This type of organism is at the base of most food webs and produces its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
This step of the water cycle involves water from oceans, lakes, and rivers turning into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
Phytoplankton are responsible for producing about this percentage of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere.
50%
True or False: Consumers produce their own food
False
This process releases energy from food by breaking down glucose.
What is cellular respiration
This term describes an organism that breaks down dead material to obtain energy.
What is a detritivore?
This step of the water cycle occurs when water vapor cools and forms clouds.
What is condensation ?
This process releases carbon into the air and soil as organic material breaks down.
True or False: Energy cycles through ecosystems because it returns to the Sun.
False
This is the main product of photosynthesis that provides energy for organisms.
What is glucose?
These organisms are at the top of the food chain and typically consume other animals.
What is a carnivore
This is what happens when clouds become too heavy, and water falls back to Earth.
What is precipitation?
This is a fossil fuel where carbon is stored in the form of ancient plants and animals.
coal (or oil or natural gas)
True or False: In a food web, energy flows from the producers to the consumers.
True
These two processes are opposites, with one producing oxygen and glucose, and the other using them to release energy.
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration ?
his organism eats both plants and animals, making it a(n) __________.
Omnivore
This is the process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration
This is the main way energy flows through ecosystems, beginning with sunlight.
Photosynthesis
True or False: Cellular respiration is the process by which plants use sunlight to make their own food.
False-Cellular respiration is the process by which cells break down glucose to release energy. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants make food using sunlight.)
This part of the cell is where cellular respiration occurs to release energy from glucose.
Mitochondria
This term describes a group of food chains that are interconnected in an ecosystem.
Answer: What is a food web?
This happens when water moves from the Earth's surface, through the atmosphere, and back to the surface again, continuing in a cycle.
What is the water cycle ?
This element is a key part of glucose, carbon dioxide, and other organic compounds, and is cycled through ecosystems.
What is carbon ?
True or False: Energy is recycled in ecosystems.
False (Energy flows through ecosystems in one direction, it does not get recycled. However, nutrients are recycled.)