1. LIFE SCIENCE VOCABULARY ORGANISMS AND ENERGY TRANSFER

2. DEFINITION Process in which plants make food by using water from the soil, carbon dioxide from the air, and energy from sunlight.

3. PHOTOSYNTHESIS

4. DEFINITION The loss of water from a leaf through the stomata.

5. TRANSPIRATION

6. DEFINITION The small openings in the leaves of plants.

7. STOMATA (STOMA)

8. DEFINITION A green pigment in leaves that allows a plant to absorb the sun’s light energy.

9. CHLOROPHYLL

10. DEFINITION A community of organisms and the environment (things like air, water, and soil) in which they live.

11. ECOSYSTEM

12. DEFINITION A living thing

13. ORGANISM

14. DEFINITION An organism, such as a plant, that makes its own food.

15. PRODUCER

16. DEFINITION An organism that eats plants and/or other animals to get energy (does not make its own food)

17. CONSUMER

18. DEFINITION An organism that eats only producers (plants)

19. HERBIVORE

20. DEFINITION An organism that eats other animals.

21. CARNIVORE

22. DEFINITION An organism that eats plants and other animals

23. OMNIVORE

24. DEFINITION A consumer that obtains food energy by breaking down the remains of dead plants and animals.

25. DECOMPOSER

26. DEFINITION The path by which energy is transferred or passed from one living thing to another in an ecosystem.

27. FOOD CHAIN

28. DEFINITION A diagram that shows the relationship of the combined food chains in a ecosystem.

29. FOOD WEB