Go with the energy flow
Respiration Nation
Pho-to-synthesis
Chemistry 101
Mystery Questions
100

This is another name for a heterotroph

What is a consumer

100

This type of organism is able to do cellular respiration

What are plants and animals?

100
This organelle is vital to the process of photosynthesis

What is the chloroplast?

100

Give the equation for cellular respiration

Glucose (C6H12O6) + Oxygen (O2) -> Carbon Dioxide (CO2) + Water (H2O) + Energy (ATP)

100

Which anaerobic process is responsible for the cheese I eat during lunch?

What is fermentation?
200

Give an example of an autotroph

What is a plant/tree/shrub/algae/moss/etc

200

Where does glycolysis occur?

What is in the cytoplasm

200

This green molecule, found in the photosystems of the light-dependent reaction, is used to absorb light and energize electrons. 

What is chlorophyll

200

The oxygen/carbon cycle helps to cycle which two molecules through the environment?

Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen

200

How did I get the energy from my breakfast cereal from the sun?

Plants convert sunlight into sugar -> plants (grains) and sugar are used in cereal

300

This type of organism uses light to create its own energy

What is a photoautotroph

300

This stage of cellular respiration produces the most ATP from the process, about 30-32 in total.

What is the electron transport chain

300

This process of photosynthesis breaks water to provide electrons to a series of proteins.

What is the light-dependent reactions

300

This gas is a byproduct of photosynthesis

What is oxygen (O2)
300

Both plants and animals are known to do photosynthesis. Why don't plants produce a lot of CO2 like we do?

Plants reuse the CO2 in photosynthesis, so less is produced

400

Are decomposers heterotrophs or autotrophs? Why?

Heterotrophs because they get their energy from other decaying organisms

400

This stage of cellular respiration is considered to be an anaerobic form of respiration.

What is glycolysis

400

This process within photosynthesis converts inorganic CO2 into organic molecules like glucose

What is the Calvin Cycle

400

Which equation from the ones below would occur in the interior of a mitochondria?

A C6H12O6 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O

B CO2 + H2O -> C6H12O6 + O2

A

400

I just picked up this plant from the store. How well will it be able to produce its own energy? Why?

Not well; no chlorophyll/chloroplast = no photosynthesis or sugar production

500


What level of organism would the snake be in this energy pyramid?

What is a tertiary consumer? (Also accepting heterotroph)

500

The energy provided to form ATP within the electron transport chain comes from the flow of these ions through the ATP synthase.

What is hydrogen

500

Give an example of a possible method to measure the rate of photosynthesis in a plant

Measure production of oxygen

Measure removal of CO2

Measure sugar content in plant

500

This is the location of stored energy in a molecule of Adenosine Triphosphate

What are the phosphate bonds (Specifically the third phosphate bond)

500

What is energy? Why do I need it?

Energy is the ability to do work. It is needed for chemical reactions, movement, body function, etc