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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Energy | Ability to work. |
| photosynthesis | chemical process that transforms carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates. |
| producers | All producers create biomass.They make food |
| Biomass | The total organic matter in an ecosystem. |
| Autotroph | Self-feeders,the oppisite of a consumer.dont eat others. |
| Consumer | Organisms that eat other organisms. |
| Heterotroph | another name for consumer.the opposite of autotroph. |
| Herbivores | Animals that eat only plants. |
| Primary Consumers | The first level of consumers,eat plants |
| Secondary Consumers | eat primary consumers. |
| Tertiary consumers. | Animals that feed on secondary consumers. |
| decomposes | Organisms that are like mushrooms and other fungi |
| omnivores. | the eat plants and animals. |
| primary productivity | the making of organic compounds from carbon dioxide/ the energy from photosynthesis. |
| energy pyramid | shows percentage of energy that is made by primary producation, carried up the food chain. |
| biomass pyramid | shows biomasses of each level of organisisms. |
| pyramid of numbers | shows food chains and numbers of organisims in each trophic level. |
| Food chain | pathway of food transfer from one to another |
| carnivores | Organism that eat other organisms |
| tropic level | the levels in the ecosystem, |
| cellular respiration | processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules. |
| detruis | waste of any kind. |
| food webs | system of interdependent food chains. |
| Kinetic energy | energy of motion |
| potential energy | energy stored due to an object position |
| thermal energy | Energy that is create through heat. |
| chemical energy | potential to perform work. |
| calorie | amount of energy needed to increase the temperature. |
| chroloplast | where photosynthesis takes place |
| chlorophyll | Chloroplasts contain chemical compounds |
| stroma | inner membrane thick fluid |
| thylakiod | disc shaped sacs |
| light reactions | convert the energy in sunlight to chemical energy |
| calvin cycle | makes sugar from the atoms in carbon dioxide |
| equation for | |
| wavelength | distance between waves |
| electromagnet spectrum | electromagnetic energy from gamma waves |
| pigment | chemical compound that determines a substance's color |
| paper chromatrophy | technique used to observe the different pigments |
| photosystem | cluster of chlorophyll and other molecules |
| mitochondria | an organelle found in large numbers in most cells |
| aerobic | free oxygen |
| electron transport | gives energy from chemical energy |
| metbolism | the chemical prosess in organisms |
| gylociss | the breakdown by engymes |
| herbs cycle | living cells generate energy during the process of aerobic respiration. |
| equation for cellular respiration | C6HA12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O δHc -2880 kJ |
| ATP synthase | important enzyme that provides energy |
| fermanation | he chemical breakdown of a substance |
| latic acid | biological process by which glucose, fructose, and sucrose are converted |
| alcoholic | biological process in which sugars such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose are converted |
| anerobic | free oxygen |
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