Energy in Food
How Plants Make Food
How Animals Use Food
Random Trivia
Trophic Spheres
100

How do plants get food?

They make it

100

Where can plants not live?

Where water is always frozen

100

What is the most obvious way that an animal uses energy?

movement

100

What happens if plants do not get enough time in the sun each day?

They do not stay healthy
100

What group make up the yellow level? (Ignore any words and just write the vocabulary we learned)

primary consumers

200
What is a producer?

They make their own food through photosynthesis

200

Plants use water and and carbon dioxide from the air to make a sugar called...

glucose

200

Name a locomotor movement

walk, run, chase, fly, sprint, swim...

200

What are two ways that plants use energy from food?

to grow and reproduce

200

What group make up the pink level? (Ignore any words and just write the vocabulary we learned)

tertiary consumers

300

What do primary consumers eat?

Plants

300

What do plants do in desert areas?

Store water when it becomes available
300
The speed of an ectotherm's metabolism depends on this

temperature

300
This process is where plants make sugar and give off oxygen into the air

photosynthesis

300

What group make up the green level? (Ignore any words and just write the vocabulary we learned)

producers

400

Describe an omnivore

Eats both plants and animals

400
Name something animals can get form eating plants

iron, potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen, energy

400
The collection of chemical processes that break down and build molecules in a living organism

metabolism

400

A substance that absorbs sunlight energy that gives plants their green color

Chlorophyll

400

What group make up the orange level? (Ignore any words and just write the vocabulary we learned)

secondary consumers

500

What do tertiary consumers do?

Convert and store about 10% of energy from the secondary consumers they eat
500

When plants open their stomata to take in carbon dioxide or release oxygen, water can exit plants and travel into the air during this process

transpiration

500

During this process, chemical energy stored in food is released to provide cells with energy they need to perform life processes

cellular respiration

500
Movements that do not transport the animal but involve movement of body parts at a fixed point

nonlocomotor movements

500

Name the four trophic levels

producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers