Food Chains
Grass captures ___________ from sunlight to photosynthesize.
What is energy?
All _______ either comes from plants or comes from animals who eat plants.
What is food?
Leaves are one of the major __________ in a plant.
What are organs?
These are the tallest plants in the world.
What are the giant Redwood trees in California?
In order to photosynthesise, plants need a supply of _________ ____________.
What is carbon dioxide?
The number of plants in an ______________ can be affected by the amount of rain, sunlight, minerals and space available to grow.
What is an ecosystem?
Plants remove ____________ _______________ from the atmosphere.
What is "carbon dioxide"?
Leaves are thin, flat, broad, green and have a _________ of veins.
What is a network?
The loss of water from a leaf is called ___________.
What is transformation?
Land plants have _________ on the underneath surface of their leaves.
What are pores or holes?
Food chains can be put together in a ______ _______, which shows how the food chains are connected.
What is a food web?
Plants release _____________ into the atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
The colour of chlorophyll.
What is green?
What is carbon dioxide?
What are stomata?
In a food web, ____________ make their own food.
What are producers?
_________________ is a method of growing plants in water using mineral nutrient solutions.
What is hydroponics?
Plants have a complex structure that allows them to photosynthesise and make ____________.
What is glucose?
These cells are packed with chloroplasts and are found mainly on top of the cells of plants.
What are palisade cells?
______________ control the opening and closing of the stoma.
What are guard cells?
_____________ consumers eat secondary consumers.
List four ways we use plants.
What is:
food, fabric, building, fuel, medicine, decorations
All plants contain this pigment.
What is chlorophyll?
The _________ _____________ of an organism is the position it occupies in a food chain.
What are the "trophic levels"?
When the guard cells are full of ___________, they open the stomata.
What is water?