Ecosystems
Cycles
Vocab
Energy
Bonus
100

What is Photosynthesis?

The process in which a plant makes its own food.

100

What is the water cycle?

The Movement of water between the oceans, atmosphere, land, and living things is known as the water cycle.

100

What is a Habitat?

A place where an organism lives within an ecosystem.

100

What is energy?

The ability to do work and enables organisms to use matter in life process.

100

What is Celluar Resperation?

The process of breaking down food to produce ATP.

200

Where do producers get their energy?

From there surroundings.

200

What is the carbon cycle?

When carbon moves through organisms and the physical environment.

200

What is an ecosystem?

A community of living organisms and their nonliving environment.

200

Where does all energy come from?

All energy comes either directly or indirectly from the sun.

200

What do energy and matter have in common?

They are both conserved.

300

Where do consumers get there energy?

Consumers get their energy by eating other organisms.

300

What is the Nitrogen Cycle?

The movement of nitrogen between the environment and living things.

300

What is a Niche?

The position or role a species has in an ecosystem.

300

How does energy flow through an ecosystem?

It starts with the sun then gets transferred into plants which are eaten by herbivores, which are eaten by either carnivores or omnivores, then when they die, they are eaten by decomposers. 

300

What is ATP?

Adenosine Triphosphate 

400

What is the niche of a decomposer?

Decomposes break down leftover organisms.

400
What is the energy cycle?

A cycle that describes the interactions between energy sources within the Earth's environment.

400

What is a Biome?

A region of Earth where the climate determines the types of plants and animals that live there.

400

Can energy be destroyed or created?

It is stated in the law of conversation of energy that energy cannot be created or destroyed.

400

How do puffins get energy?

(HINT: It lives in/by the ocean)

It gets its energy by eating Herring and Squid.

500

What would happen if all of the consumers disappeared from an ecosystem?

Decomposers would die because there would be no leftover food for them and producers would over grow.

500

What do all of the cycles have in common?

They all recycle essential elements though ecosystems.

500

What is a Eutrophication?

The process in which organic matter and nutrients slowly build up in a body  of water.

500

How does energy affect plants and animals in an ecosystem?

Energy affects plants and animals by giving them the ability to move around and be active. Without it, plants wouldn't be able to have the energy to make their own food or move around.

500

Name a mammal that lays eggs.

1. Platypus

2. Echidna