Photosynthesis Basics
The name of the process plants use to make their own food using sunlight.
What is Photosynthesis
What do we call organisms that make their own food?
What is Producers.
Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms.
What is Consumers.
What do Decomposers break down?
What is dead plants and animals.
Where does all energy in an ecosystem begin?
What is from the Sun.
The gas plants take in during Photosynthesis.
What is Carbon Dioxide (CO2)?
Name one example of a producer.
What is plants, trees, grasses, flowers
Type of Consumer that eats only plants.
What is Herbivores.
Name one Decomposer.
What is Fungi, Worms, Beetles, Bacteria, or mushrooms.
Does energy flow in a circle or one direction?
What is one direction.
The gas released by plants during Photosynthesis.
What is Oxygen?
Why are producers important to all food chains?
What is they are the starting point of energy.
Type of Consumer that eats both plants and animals.
What is Omnivores.
Why are Decomposers important to Ecosystems?
What is they recycle/reuse nutrients back into the soil.
Where does Decomposers receive their energy from?
What is from Consumers (through their nutrients).
The sugar that is made during Photosynthesis and used for energy.
What is Glucose (Sugar)?
How do Producers get energy from the Sun?
What is by using sunlight during Photosynthesis.
Type of Consumer that eats only animals/meat.
What is Carnivores.
What happens to nutrients after Decomposers break things down?
What is they return to the soil for plants to use.
What role do Decomposers play in transferring energy in Ecosystems?
What is they break down Consumers and recycle/reuse nutrients.
Why is sunlight important for Photosynthesis?
What is it provides the energy needed to make food.
What would happen to an ecosystem without Producers?
What is Consumers would not survive because there would be no energy source.
Where do Consumers typically get their energy from?
What is from the Sun (through Producers).
How do Decomposers help Producers?
What is they provide nutrients needed for plant growth.
Explain how energy moves through an ecosystem using Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers.
What is Energy moves from the Sun to Producers, then to Consumers, and Decomposers recycle/reuse nutrients.