Vocab
The process that uses energy from the sun to make food from water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
These are the raw materials for photosynthesis.
What are water, carbon dioxide and sunlight?
This part of a leaf takes in carbon dioxide.
What are stomata?
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
What is a Food Web?
This is the source of nearly all the energy on earth.
What is the sun?
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is ecosystem?
Photosynthesis uses light energy, carbon dioxide, and water to produce __________________ that the plant can use for food.
What is glucose?
These plant structures take in water and minerals.
What are roots?
graphical model of energy flow in a community
What is an energy pyramid?
This group of organisms undergoes photosynthesis.
What are producers or autotrophs?
Bubble in water after you place a plant in water.
What is a evidence of chemical reaction? (gas, O2)
This waste product is not needed by plants and is released, allowing animals to breath it in.
What is oxygen?
Radiant Energy
CO2
H20
What are the reactants?
The % of energy lost as it moves up the pyramid
What is 10%?
This group of organisms is not capable of photosynthesis.
What are consumers?
Is the creation of a solid from 2 solution.
What is precipitate?
This is the balanced equation for photosynthesis.
6water + 6carbon dioxide -> 1 glucose + 6 oxygen
Food for the plant and one of the products of photosynthesis.
What is glucose?
Where most of the energy comes from.
What is the sun?
This life on Earth could not survive without the photosynthetic organisms called ___________.
What are producers?
the flow of energy through a food chain
What is Energy flow?
This is what the arrow represents in the equation.
What is yields?
Location where photosynthesis takes place.
What is the chloroplast?
Location where the least amount of energy is found.
What is the top of the food chain?
This group of organisms start every food chain or web.
What are producers?