Photosynthesis
The process that allows plants to make their own food using sunlight.
photosynthesis
How do plants get water?
Why are plants considered producers?
They make their own food
A simple path showing energy flow from one organism to another.
Food chain
A word for living things in an ecosystem
Biotic
The gas plants need for photosynthesis
Carbon Dioxide
Two reactants needed for photosynthesis
Carbon dioxide and water
Animals that can eat plants are called...
Herbivores
A network of connected food chains.
Food web
A word for non living things in an ecosystem.
Abiotic
Oxygen
This green pigment absorbs sunlight.
Cholorophyll
Animals that eat both plants and animals.
Omnivores
Energy in a food chain always start with this.
Sun
The place where an organism lives.
Habitat
This sugar is made during photosynthesis.
Glucose (Extra 100 pts. for the chemical formula)
True
What do decomposers do?
Break down organic matter and recycle nutrients
True
All the living and nonliving things in an area.
Ecosystem
Where does photosynthesis happen in plants?
The leaves
Write the chemical equation for photosynthesis.
Carbon Dioxide+water --sunlight--> glucose+oxygen
Name 3 decomposers.
Fungi, bacteria, earthworms
What eats top predators?
Decomposers
True or false: A leaf that has fallen off of a tree is a abiotic factor.
False. (Extra 50 points for explanation)