Vocabulary
The main energy molecule of cells
What is ATP?
The gas taken in during photosynthesis
The molecule that is broken down during cellular respiration
The part of the mitochondrion where the Electron Transport Chain happens
Why do you breathe harder when you exercise?
To bring in more oxygen for cellular respiration
Organisms that make their own food
The main product made by photosynthesis
What is glucose?
What are glucose and oxygen?
The location in the chloroplasts where the light-dependent reactions take place
What are thylakoids?
What happens when your muscles run low on oxygen?
Lactic acid fermentation occurs
The organelle that is the site of photosynthesis
The gas released during photosynthesis
What is oxygen?
The three products made during cellular respiration
The process during which glucose is split into two molecules of pyruvate
Why do plants still need to perform cellular respiration after photosynthesis?
The site of most cellular respiration
What is mitochondria?
The pigment molecule that captures sunlight inside the chloroplast
The location that glycolysis takes place
What is the cytoplasm?
The fluid filled space inside the mitochondrion
What is the matrix?
What product of photosynthesis do animals depend on to breathe?
Oxygen
The gas used in cellular respiration
What is oxygen?
The two major stages of photosynthesis
What are light-dependent reactions and Calvin Cycle
The process that takes place if there is no oxygen available
What is fermentation?
The fluid-filled space inside the chloroplast
What is the stroma?
What happens to carbon dioxide when you exhale?
It can be reused by plants for photosynthesis