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Plant Cells
100

Matter that makes up the nonliving parts of an ecosystem, such as air, water, and rocks.

What is Abiotic matter?

100

An organism that needs to eat in order to get energy storage molecules.

What is a consumer?

100

An organism that gets energy storage molecules (such as glucose) by breaking down dead matter.

What is a decomposer?

100
The chemical in plants that captures the radiant energy from sunlight?

What is chlorophyll?

100
Which organelle releases energy and sugars and is known as the "power house" of the cell?

What is mitochondria?

200

Matter that makes up the living and dead organisms in an ecosystem.

What is biotic matter?

200

A type of atom (a tiny piece) that makes up molecules such as carbon dioxide and energy storage molecules, and is present in ALL matter.

What is Carbon?

200

The form of carbon found in the air (atmosphere).

What is carbon dioxide?

200

A type of enclosed ecosystem.

What is a biodome?

200

The part of a cell where photosynthesis happens

What is chloroplast?

300

The tiny pieces that all matter is made of (the building blocks).

What are atoms?

300

The chemical reaction between oxygen and glucose that releases energy into cells

What is Cellular Respiration?

300

All the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area.

What is an Ecosystem?

300

The 3 MOST important atoms which make up biotic matter.

What are carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen?

300

The rigid outer layer and support of a plant cell which surrounds the flexible barrier around the cell, controlling the flow of traffic in/out of the cell.

What are cell wall and cell membrane?

400

Which gas is formed during photosynthesis?

What is oxygen?

400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY:

The definitions of an autotroph and a heterotroph.

Autotroph - organism that makes its own food/energy.

Heterotroph - organism that cannot make its own food.

400

The products of photosynthesis.

What are oxygen and glucose?

400

Only producers need _________ and contain the tiny cell parts called ______________.

What is sunlight and choroplasts?

400

The 2 types of the network of membranes or transport within the cell?

What are the rough and smooth endoplasmis recticulum?

500

The equation for cellular respiration.

What is: 

Glucose + O (oxygen) ---> CO2 + H2O (water) + light energy (sunlight)

500

What are the products of cellular respiration?

What are CO2, water, and energy?

500

The process by which plants and other producers use energy from sunlight to change carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose (an energy storage molecule)

What is photosynthesis?

500

The 4 types of decomposers.

What are fungi, mold, bacteria, worms, and other organisms that break down dead matter?

500

The jelly-like fluid that fills a cell and holds all the organelles.

What is cytoplasm?

600

The difference between a reactant and a product.

Reactant is the starting substance while the product is the ending substance of a chemical reaction.

600

DOUBLE JEOPARDY:

The 10 types of ecosystems.

Rainforest

Forest 

Taiga

Tundra

Grassland/Shrubland

Desert

Still Fresh water (lentic)

Tidal zone/wetlands

Flowing Springs/Rivers

Coral Reef

Oceanic

600

The reactants of cellular respiration.

What are oxygen and glucose?

600

The only organisms that can perform BOTH photosynthesis and cellular respiration.

What are producers?

600

The control center of the cell.

What is the nucleus?

700

Something that results from a process.

What is an output?

700

Something that is required for a process.

What is an input?

700

List 3 types of Energy Storage Molecules.

What are fats, glucose and starch?

700

The parts of the cell which contain DNA.

What are the nucleus and mitochondria?

700

The "builders" of proteins in the cell, found on rough E.R. and floating in the cytoplasm.

What are ribosomes?

800

The number of atoms are the same before and after the chemical reaction found in photosynthesis.

What is the definition of the Law of Conservation of Mass?

800

What are the reactants of photosynthesis?

What are CO2, water, and light energy?

800

The equation for photosynthesis.

What is:

CO2 + H2O + light energy (sunlight) ---> glucose + O (oxygen)

800

The 3 carbon-rich matter (fossil fuels) left behind by plants and animals that died millions of years ago.

What are coal, oil, and gas?

800
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:

The 3 mail cell parts found only in plant cells.

What are the cell wall, chloroplasts, and the vaculoe?