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Energy Cycle
Energy Cycle in Living Things
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| carbon dioxide | a gas that is used, along with water and chlorophyll, to help make photosynthesis work |
| carnivore | consumer that only eats other animals |
| chlorophyll | a green material that exists in chloroplasts. This traps the suns energy that the chloroplasts need to run the "food factories". |
| chloroplast | Plant cells contain these structures which are the food factories in plant cells |
| consumer | organisms that eat other organisms |
| decomposer | an organism that gets its energy by breaking down and feeding on dead organisms |
| ecosystem | these vary in size, a place where any group of living and nonliving things interact with each other |
| food chain | shows the path of energy as it flows from one organism to the next |
| food web | is a diagram of several connected food chains |
| glucose | an energy rich sugar that is produced when cholorplasts break down water and carbon dioxide. |
| herbivore | a consumer that only eats plants |
| omnivore | a consumer that eats both plants and animals |
| organisms | an individual form of life, such as, a plant or an animal |
| oxygen | a gas that is given off by the process of photosynthesis. |
| photosynthesis | the process by which plants use sunlight to make food |
| stomata | plants take in carbon dioxide through small pores, or openings, on the underside of the leaf. |