Kelp Forest
A part of kelp that is similar to roots of a plant.
What is the holdfast?
The biological process by which most plants produce organic compounds for their food.
What is photosynthesis?
The process of converting the food we eat into a usable form of energy for our cells.
What is cellular respiration?
The name of an animal at the very top of a food chain.
What is an apex predator?
The energy in the food chain originates here.
What is the sun?
Data we observe with our senses.
What is qualitative data?
This is where photosynthesis takes place.
The chloroplast.
This is where cellular respiration takes place.
What is the mitochondria?
The name of an animal that gets eaten by other animals in a food chain.
What is prey?
In a food chain and web, these show the direction of energy.
What are arrows?
In a kelp forest, this organism will consume all of the kelp if left uneaten.
What are sea urchins?
In photosynthesis, carbon dioxide and water are examples of these.
What are reactants?
These are the reactants in cellular respiration.
Animals that eat both plans and animals.
What are omnivores?
A tertiary consumer can also be called this.
What is an apex predator?
The amount of matter in a given volume.
What is density?
In photosynthesis, glucose and oxygen are examples of these.
What are products?
These are the products of cellular respiration.
What are ATP (energy), carbon dioxide, and water?
Animals that eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
A realistic diagram of relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
In a kelp forest, this organism is responsible for keeping the kelp forest dense.
What are the sea otters?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
This is conserved in the cycle of matter and energy.
What is energy?
Animals that eat only meat.
What are carnivores?
As food is consumed in an energy pyramid, this decreases.
What is energy?