Vocabulary
The process by which plants make their own food using energy from the sun.
What is photosynthesis?
Where most photosynthesis takes place in the plant.
What is the leaf?
The beginning of all food webs.
What is a producer/plant?
Three ingredients needed for photosynthesis to occur.
What are sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
The reason trees survive when they lose their leaves in winter.
What is stored energy?
Organism that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
The pigment which makes plants green.
What is chlorophyll?
Breaks down and feeds off of dead and decaying matter.
What is a decomposer?
glucose and oxygen
What is produced during photosynthesis?
Provided by animals for photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide?
a triangular diagram that shows how energy moves through a community
What is an energy pyramid?
The part of the leaf that contains chlorophyll
What is the chloroplast?
These organisms eat producers.
What are first level consumers?
a by-product of photosynthesis
What is oxygen?
Next in food web after primary consumer
What is a secondary consumer?
tiny pores where carbon dioxide enters plant leaves
What are stomata?
Water enters the plant here
What are the roots?
Many food chains put together.
What is a food web?
sugar produced by plants
What is glucose?
fungi, bacteria, mushrooms
What are some examples of decomposers?
An organism that eats only meat
What is a carnivore?
green pigment
What is chlorophyll?
Energy source for all food webs
What is sunlight?
A decomposer that finds and eats dead and decaying matter but is not a predator.
What is a scavenger?