Ecosystems
The place where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
All parts of the Earth where life exist.
What is a biosphere?
The basic unit of matter.
What is an atom?
The basic unit that makes up all living things.
What is a cell?
This green pigment helps plants absorb light.
What is chlorophyll?
An organisms role in its environment.
What is a niche?
Organisms that make their own food from sunlight or chemicals.
What are autotrophs or producers?
The type of bond formed when atoms share electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
This part of the cell controls what goes in or out.
What is the cell membrane?
Plants use this process to make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
A relationship in which both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
A group of the same species living together in one area.
What is a population?
The pH range that defines an acid.
What is 0 to 6.9?
This cell part is the ¨brain¨ and holds the DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This gas is taken in by plants during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
The type of succession that occurs when soil is already present.
What is secondary succession?
Large areas with similar climate and organisms.
What is a biome?
The molecule known as the universal solvent.
What is water?
Plant cells have this extra layer that animals don´t.
What is a cell wall?
This sugar is the main product of photosynthesis.
What is glucose?
The close relationship where two different species live together.
what is symbiosis?
The process in which nitrogen is converted into a form plants can use.
What is nitrogen fixation?
The four macromolecules essential to life.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?
This cell part makes energy from food using oxygen.
What is the mitocondria?
This organelle is where photosynthesis takes place.
What is the chloroplast?