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Energy and Ecosystem
Energy and Ecosystems Chapter 5
Question | Answer |
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The process by which plants make food using energy from sunlight | Photosynthesis |
A community of organisms and the environment in which they live | Ecosystem |
An animal that eats only producers | Herbivore |
An organism that makes its own food | Producer |
An animal that eats plants or other animals | Consumer |
The transfer of energy between organisms in an ecosystem | Food Chain |
An organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants and animals | Decomposer |
A diagram that shows how much food energy is passed to each level in a food chain | Energy Pyramid |
Where do producers get their Energy? | The Sun |
Which kind of organism is at the end of every food chain? | Decomposer |
How much of a given food source's energy is passed as its predator eats it? | Ten percent |
What is the green pigment found in producers that enables it to use the sun's energy to make food? | Chlorophyll |
Green plants use carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and give off what? | Oxygen and Water (Transpiration) |
Carnivores, Herbivores and Omnivores are classified as what in the food pyramid? | Consumers |
Give an example of a food chain. | Grass-Locust-Snake-Owl-Mushroom |
What happens when you move a sunflower from a dark place to a window with the sun shining through? | The flower will turn towards the light and the plant will begin to grow. |
What are green plants classified as in the food chain? | Producers |
Populations that live and interact with one another | Community |
A contest among organisms to find the food, water, shelter and space they need to live. | Competition |
A relationship between different kinds of organisms where on organism benefits from the other | symbiosis |
A gradual change in the kinds of organisms that live in an ecosystem | Succession |
The saving of resources | Conservation |
The process of cleaning and restoring damaged ecosystems | Reclamation |
Animals that eat other animals | Predators |
Animals that are eaten by other animals | Prey |