Vocabulary
The process where plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to produce sugar and release oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
Carnivores have sharp teeth so they can eat this.
What is meat?
This is an organisms that consumes dead or nonliving biomass without need for digestion.
What is a decomposer?
This is the part of the plant which supports the leaves and carries water, minerals, and food throughout the plant.
What is the stem?
This is the gas which humans breathe out.
What is carbon dioxide?
An organisms that receives energy from eating plants or animals.
What is a consumer?
Cows are an example of this type of consumer in a food web.
What is an herbivore?
This is an organisms that makes its own food for energy.
What is a producer?
This is where the plant makes seeds to continue the life cycle?
What is the flower?
This is the gas which plants produce through the process of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
An organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy.
What is a producer?
A rabbit is considered this because it must eat other living things to get energy.
What is a consumer?
What is a food web?
What are the leaves?
This is the part of the plant where the most sunlight is absorbed.
What are the leaves?
All living and nonliving things and all their interactions in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
In a food web, arrows show how this moves between organisms.
What is energy?
A type of organism that can break down just about any type of organic matter and is too small to see without tools.
What is bacteria?
This is where the plant is anchored to the ground. It is able to absorb water and minerals from the soil.
What are the roots?
This is what "photo" in the word photosynthesis means.
What is needed to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
Organisms depend on their ecosystems to meet their ______.
What are needs?
A single, self-contained, living thing.
What is an organism?
This is the process through which plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
These are the three things needed for photosynthesis.
What are sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.