How Plants Make Food

What is the process by which plants make their own food?

• metamorphosis

• photosynthesis

• cooking

• photography

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What things must plants have in order to make food?

• Oxygen, sunlight, carbon dioxide

• water, sunlight, oxygen

• leaves, roots, stems, petals

• carbon dioxide, water, sunlight

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Photosynthesis is

• captures energy from sunlight

• the process in which plants make food

• tiny structures in a plant cell

• the substance that makes plants green

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What is the special green part in plant cells that helps capture energy from the sun to make food?

• glucose

• leaves

• water

• chloroplast

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Organisms that can produce their own source of food are called...

• heterotrophs

• omnivores

• autotrophs

• herbivores

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Which of the following is NOT needed for a producer to make its own food?

• Oxygen

• Carbon dioxide

• Water

• Sunlight

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Mr. Weaver loves to make pesto. He has a basil plant, and he uses 20 of the leaves to make pesto (10 leaves are left on the plant). Three weeks later, the basil plant has regrown its leaves and has 30 leaves again. Where did the matter that make up the plant's new leaves come from?

• from nutrients

• from sunlight

• from soil

• from water and air

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A producer is a living thing that makes its own food from sunlight, air, and soil.

• True

• False

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A ​ (a)   is an organism that can make its own food.

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• carnivore

• herbivore

• omnivore

• scavenger

An organism that can make its own food is a

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• omnivore

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