Plant Structures and Processes
The part of a flower that is sterile and composed of petal-like tissue.
What is the sepal?
Phototropism is a plants response to this external stimuli.
What is sunlight?
This gas is taken in by plants during the process of photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
These organisms produce their own food.
What is a producer?
This organism gets its energy from plants.
What is an herbivore (primary consumer)?
Green plants capture and store light energy from the Sun through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
The roots of a plant respond to these two external stimuli.
What are water and gravity?
Green plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use it to produce carbon compounds through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
This group of organisms provides the primary source of energy for all other organisms.
What are producers?
This organism is at the top of food chains and food webs.
What is a top predator (apex predator)?
The part of a flower that is made of colorful structures arranged in a circle around the top of a flower stem.
What is a petal?
The affects of gravity on a plant are known as this term.
What is gravitropism/geotropism?
This element is constantly removed from and released into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide.
What is carbon?
All of the energy transferred in any habitat ultimately comes from this
What is the sun?
A food web is created with multiples of these.
What are food chains?
The primary function of a flower.
What is reproduction?
These are the conditions that trigger dormancy in plants.
What is conditions not suitable for plant growth?
This process breaks down carbon compounds (eg. glucose) into carbon dioxide.
What is respiration?
In a food web, consumers get their energy by doing this
What is eating other organisms?
A food web web shows these different levels.
What are trophic levels?
The loss of water through the stomata is know as this process.
What is transpiration?
List the 3 major external stimuli tropisms.
What is phototropism, geotropism(gravitropism), and thigmotropism?
This is an area that stores carbon compounds for an indefinite period where there is more carbon than it releases.
What is a carbon sink?
This is necessary in any ecosystem to support the energy needs of the animals that live there.
What is plants transforming sunlight into food? (photosynthesis)
This percentage of energy is not transferred to the next trophic level.
What is 90%?