Make It or Take It
An organism that makes its own food, usually using sunlight.
What is an autotroph?
These organisms form the base of the energy pyramid by making their own food.
What are producers?
This green pigment helps plants capture sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
The organelle where cellular respiration mainly takes place.
What is the mitochondrion?
This process happens in plant chloroplasts.
What is photosynthesis?
An organism that must eat other organisms for energy.
What is a heterotroph?
These animals eat producers.
What are primary consumers?
This gas is taken in by plants to start photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
The main energy molecule produced by cellular respiration.
What is ATP?
This process happens in both plant and animal mitochondria.
What is cellular respiration?
Plants, algae, and some bacteria are examples of this type of organism.
What are autotrophs?
These animals eat primary consumers.
What are secondary consumers?
These are the two main products of photosynthesis
What are glucose and oxygen?
These are the two types of cellular respiration.
What are aerobic and anaerobic respiration?
The main product of photosynthesis that becomes the main reactant in cellular respiration.
What is glucose?
Animals and fungi are examples of this type of organism.
What are heterotrophs?
This consumer is at the very top of the pyramid with no natural predators.
What is an apex predator?
These are the two stages of photosynthesis.
What are the light-dependent reactions and the Calvin cycle (light-independent reactions)?
This type of respiration produces lactic acid when oxygen is low.
What is lactic acid fermentation?
This is the key gas released by photosynthesis but required for cellular respiration.
What is oxygen?
The main difference between autotrophs and heterotrophs is how they get this.
What is energy (food)?
Only about this percentage of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
The overall chemical formula for photosynthesis is this.
What is 6CO₂ + 6H₂O → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂?
The overall chemical formula for cellular respiration is this.
What is C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂ → 6CO₂ + 6H₂O + ATP?
These two processes form a cycle because the products of one are the reactants of the other.
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?