Lesson 1
These living things make their own food.
What is a Producer?
More complicated than a food chain, this shows how different organisms are connected to each other as related to energy transfer.
What is a food web?
This is the ability to do things
What is energy?
This is a region of Earth where the climate determines what types of plants live there.
What is a biome?
These biomes are located near Earth's equator.
What is Tropical Rain Forest?
This green pigment is found in the leaves of plants.
What is chlorophyll?
This means the role, or position, a species has within an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
This tool can be used to trace the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
What is an energy pyramid?
This is the main abiotic factor that characterizes a biome.
What is climate?
An example of this biome is the African savanna.
What is Tropical Grassland?
These living things get energy by eating other organisms.
What are consumers?
This is a community of living and nonliving things in the environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This is the burning of materials, such as wood and fossil fuels.
What is combustion?
This is a smaller area within a biome that includes a specific community of living organisms and their physical nonliving environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This process breaks sugars down to release energy – oxygen gas is used, and energy, carbon dioxide and water are released.
What is (cellular) respiration?
This process is how plants use energy from sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make sugars.
What is photosynthesis?
In a food chain, I am third-level consumer.
What is a tertiary consumer?
As consumers eat other organisms to get energy, some of the energy is “lost” as this.
What is heat?
Also called a boreal forest, this biome has low average temperatures with moderate precipitation.
What is taiga?
Bacteria and Fungi are examples of these:
What are decomposers?
In eukaryotic cells, cellular respiration takes place in organelles called these.
What is mitochondria?
In a food web, I am the organism with no arrows pointing away from me.
What is a top predator?
This is the process by which bacteria turn nitrogen gas into compounds that plants can use
What is nitrogen fixation?
Besides climate, these 3 things are other abiotic factors that characterize a biome.
What are soil type, amount of sunlight, and water?
This states that matter can not be created, nor can it be destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of matter?