Question | Answer |
Energy | The ability to work |
Photosynthesis | A chemical process that changes carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates |
Producers | Photosynthetic organisms produce molecules, which have energy in the chemical bonds that hold them together |
Biomass | Bio= Living; Mass= Matter
Organic matter in an ecosystem |
Autotroph | Cells that make/produce their own food, they are also called self-feeders. Auto= Self; Troph= Food |
Consumer | Organisms that eat other organisms Ex. Cow eats grass |
Heterotroph | Hetero= Different Eating different foods Ex. Cow eats grass and dandelions |
Herbivores | Animals that only eat plants |
Primary Consumers | First level consumers
Ex. Deer, Mice, Rabbits |
Secondary Consumers | Organisms that eat the consumer that eat the producer Ex. Wolves, Spiders, Snakes, Hawks |
Carnivores | Animals that eat meat |
Tertiary Consumers | Organisms that eat secondary consumers
Ex. Sharks, Pelicans, Polar Bear, Barracudas (Killer Fish), and Orcas. |
Omnivores | Eat both plants and animals Ex. Humans, Some Monkeys/ Gorillas, etc. |
Decomposers | Organisms that eat other organisms' body when decomposing |
Photosynthesis | When plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugar |
Cellular Respiration | Chemical process that uses oxygen to make chemical energy stored in organic molecules |
Trophic Level | Feeding Level in an Ecosystem |
Food Chain | A way of food that transfers from one trophic level to another |
Detrius | Waste and remains of dead organisms |
Food Web | A pattern of feeding organisms in different ways |
Primary Productivity | Rate at which an ecosystem build biomass |
Energy Pyramid | Diagram showing energy loss in one trophic level to the next |
Biomass Pyramid | Diagram showing biomass in each trophic level |
Pyramid Of Numbers | Representation of each organism on each trophic level |
Kinetic Energy | Energy of motion |
Calorie | Amount of energy required to raise tempeture |
Potential Energy | Energy stored due to an objects situation |
Thermal Energy | Total amount of energy moving around in random movement of atoms and molecules in the same matter |
Chemical Energy | Able to do work due to the number of atoms within molecules |
ATP (Definition and Diagram) | Main energy source used for most of their work |
Mitochondria | The powerhouse of the cell |
Aerobic | Requiring Oxygen |
Eletron Transpot Chain | Electron carriers that transfer electrons and release energy during cellular respiration |
Metabolism | All of the cells chemical process |
Glycolysis | The splitting of half of a glucose molecule |
Krebs Cycle | The stage of cellular respiration |
ATP Synthase | Protein structure in cell mitochondria that uses energy to convert ADP to ATP |
Fermentation | Cellular process of making ATP without oxygen |
Anaerobic | Without oxygen |
Chloroplast | This is found in plant cells and it's were photosynthesis is made |
Chlorophyll | The pigment that turns chloroplast in a green color |
Stroma | Thick fluid containing the inner membrane of a chloroplast |
Thylakoid | Disk- shaped sac in the stroma in the chloroplast, this is were light reactions of photosynthesis happens |
Light Reactions | Chemical reaction that convert the suns energy into a chemical energy |
Calvin Cycle | Cycle in plants that makes sugar from carbon dioxide |
Wavelenght | Distance between adjacent waves |
Electromagnetic Spectrum | Many types of electromagnetic energy from gamma waves to radio waves |
Pigment | Determines the substances color |
Paper Chromatorgraphy | Observing different pigments in a material |
Photosystem | A cluster of chlorophyll and other molecules in a thylakoid |