The Photosynthesis Factory
The cellular structures in the leaves where the process of photosynthesis actually takes place.
What are chloroplasts?
The specific type of sugar that plants produce to use as their primary food source.
What is glucose?
These internal structures act like pipelines, carrying water upward and distributing sugar to other parts of the plant.
What are vascular tubes?
A compound made entirely of hydrogen and oxygen that is absorbed by roots.
What is water?
Pores on the surface of a plant that allow gases to move into and out of the plant.
What is a stomata?
This green substance found inside chloroplasts is responsible for capturing light energy.
What is chlorophyll?
The three total inputs required for a plant to perform photosynthesis
What are water, carbon dioxide, and light energy?
This part of the plant absorbs water and dissolved minerals directly from the soil.
What are the roots?
A group of related objects that work together to perform a specific function.
What is a system?
A form of energy that animals can see directly.
What is light energy?
Besides multi-celled plants, this organism also gets its energy by making food through photosynthesis using sunlight.
What is algae?
The two final products, or outputs, made during the process of photosynthesis
What are glucose and oxygen?
The direction that water and dissolved minerals travel when they are carried through the plant's vascular tubes.
What is upward (or toward the leaves)?
Important particles found in food that a living thing needs to survive.
What are nutrients?
An organism that is made up of many cells, makes its own food through photosynthesis, and cannot move.
What is a plant?
These tiny pores on the surface of a plant's leaves allow gases to move into and out of the plant.
What are stomata?
This specific gas is taken in by the plant's leaves and used as an input to build sugar.
What is carbon dioxide?
This part of the plant supports leaves and flowers, and grows completely away from the roots.
What is the stem?
Defined as continuing to live or exist until death or extinction.
What is survive?
A gas in Earth's atmosphere and in water that living organisms breathe.
What is oxygen?
Photosynthesis depends directly on energy from this visible form of electromagnetic radiation.
What is visible light (or sunlight)?
This essential gas is released by the plant into the atmosphere as a byproduct of making food.
What is oxygen?
The place in the plant where glucose is manufactured before it is shipped out to the rest of the plant system.
What are the leaves?
The part of the atmosphere closest to Earth that organisms use for respiration.
What is air?
The part of a plant that grows away from the roots; supports leaves and flowers.
What is the stem?