Photosynthesis and Ecosystems Vocabulary

1. Plants make their own food. This means that plants are ________.
4. A diagram that shows how energy flows from a single kind of producer to a top predator.
8. Photosynthesis provides plants the materials they need to ______ and reproduce.
10. One of the products of photosynthesis. Humans and animals need it to breathe.
12. An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.
14. True or false: Photosynthesis changes light energy from the Sun into chemical energy.
15. One of the things needed for photosynthesis to occur. It is absorbed by the roots of the plant.
16. An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms.

2. One of the products of photosynthesis. It is the food of the plant.
3. The original source of energy for most food chains.
5. One of the things needed for photosynthesis to occur. Humans and animals produce this when we breathe.
6. One of the things needed for photosynthesis to occur. Plants get this from the sun.
7. The process where plants use light, carbon dioxide, and water to make sugar.
9. True or false: Animals that eat plants get energy from the sugar made during photosynthesis.
11. Yes or No:Does photosynthesis occur in animals?
13. Which is a producer? sun, grass, or cow?