Overview
Plants do not do this like consumers do.
The part of the plant that gathers sunlight
What is the Leaf?
What does the plant make during photosynthesis?
Sugars
What three things are on the left side and needed for photosythesis?
Energy, carbon dioxide, and water
What happens when consumers eat plants?
They get the energy that was stored
What is sunlight?
What gets split by the suns energy
What is water molecules?
What does the hydrogen combine with to make the sugar?
Carbon dioxide
What two things are on the right side that are produced?
Sugar (or glucose) and oxygen
What is the new term for an organism that makes its own food?
Autotroph
Why are plants important to the energy pyramid?
They are at the bottom and must make enough energy for all the consumers.
What is released from the plant as waste.
What is Oxygen?
What do plants and animals use carbohydrates for?
What do plants do with a small amount of the energy that they make?
Use it for living and growing
What is the new term for an organism that is unable to make its own food?
Heterotroph
What does "Photos" mean in Greek?
What is light?
The green pigment that absorbs sunlight
What is chlorophyll?
The name of a common sugar produced by plants
Glucose
What do plants do with most of the energy they make?
Store it in cell walls for a consumer.
Grasses and shrubs get their energy _______________ from the sun.
Directly
What does "synthesis" mean from the greek syntithenai?
What is assemble or put together
What moves on to stage 2 (2 things)?
Hydrogen and energy
Almost all atmospheric __________________ on Earth is a byproduct of photosynthesis
What is Oxygen
For every molecule of glucose produced, how many molecules of carbon dioxide and water are needed?
6 of each
Kangaroo eating grass and shrubs obtain energy ________________ from the sun
indirectly