Food, Glorious Food
This trophic level eats the producers
What are herbivores (primary consumers)?
Photosynthesis stores chemical energy in this molecule.
What is glucose (sugar)?
This is made of billions of stars, nebulae, and other astronomical bodies
What is a galaxy?
The most common element that makes up most of a star's mass
What is hydrogen?
This planet has life on it
What is Earth?
This trophic level has the most mass in an ecosystem
What are the producers?
Cellular respiration produces these two products.
What are carbon dioxide and oxygen?
These are often found in a belt between Mars and Jupiter
What are asteroids?
This property of stars depends on their distance from Earth, as well as their size and temperature
What is apparent magnitude?
This planet is the warmest in the solar system due to its thick atmosphere
What is Venus?
Deer, mice, and bear all eat berries from bushes. Removing deer would likely have this impact on the mouse population.
What is cause it to increase>?
The chloroplast contains this pigment, which allows it to absorb energy from the sun.
What is chlorophyll?
The distance from Earth to the sun is 93 million miles, more commonly called this
What is an astronomical unit?
A star with a small size but a high absolute magnitude must be this.
What is very high in temperature?
Reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, this object is found in the oort cloud
What is pluto?
Seaweed --> Snail --> Minnow --> Heron --> Alligator
What is the heron?
This is a waste product of cellular respiration and a reactant in photosynthesis that makes most of the mass of the sugar
What is carbon dioxide?
The nearest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri, is 4.3 of these from the sun
What is light years?
With its surface temperature of 5500 degrees Celsius, the sun is this color star
What is yellow?
These cool, red blotches on the sun are often accompanied by solar prominences
What are sun spots?
Adding a python to the food chain shown below would likely have this effect on the minnow population.
Hint: pythons compete with alligators
Seaweed --> Snail --> Minnow --> Heron --> Alligator
What is cause the minnows to increase?
6 C6H12O6 + 6 O2 --> 6 H2O + 6 CO2
These clouds of dust and gas can collapse under gravity, leading to the formation of new stars
What are nebulae?
The layers of the sun, from inside to outside
What are the core, radiation zone, convection zone, photosphere, and corona?
The closest astronomical body to Earth, this celestial object causes the tides
What is the moon?