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Photosynthesis
Producers and Consumers
Energy and Matter
Food Chains and Food Webs
Living or Not?
100

Photosynthesis needs what 3 components to take place

Sunlight, carbon dioxide and water

100

What is a producer?

A living thing that makes its own food

100

The source of all energy in most ecosystems is the ___.

Sun

100

All food chains begin with a ____

producer

100

Give me 2 of the Basic Life Processes

Gets nutrients, Reacts to Change, Gets rid of waste, Grows, Reproduces, Uses Energy

200

What is glucose?

a form of sugar made my plants through the process of photosynthesis

200

What is a consumer?

A living thing that gets energy by eating other organisms for food

200

What is the process by which a plant releases water vapor?

Transpiration

200

What is the role of the scavenger?

to eat the organisms that have already died 

200

What is the process of growing plants without soil?

Hydroponics

300

Nearly all the energy of life starts with the ___.

Sun

300

What is an omnivore?

An animal that eats both plants and other animals to meet its energy needs

300

How do producers make food?

Photosynthesis

300

True or False: If an ecosystem is disrupted, it is destroyed. 

False. Ecosystems are continually being disrupted and restabilized due to human and natural activity. 

300

An ecosystem includes all of the __ and ______ ___in a given area.

Living and non-living things. 

400

Plants take in __ and release __. 

Carbon dioxide; Oxygen

400

A lion is an _____.

Apex Predator

400

Which animal has the fastest metabolism of all animals? 

The hummingbird.

400
Which organisms break down dead plant and animal matter and return the nutrients to the soil?

Decomposers

400

An ecosystem is contained in a ___-____ area. 

Well-defined

500

Some energy from plants is used by producers to live. The rest of the energy is stored in _______.

The plant

500

What is an herbivore?

An animal that eats plants to meet its energy needs.

500

The transformation of sunlight into the chemical energy of glucose takes place in which part of the plant?

The leaves.

500

Explain the difference between a food chain and a food web.

A food chain shows the order in which energy and matter flow through a series of organisms, and a food web shows how all the organisms are interrelated. 

500

A fire is an example of a natural event that causes an ecosystem ______.

Disruption