CHEMICAL ENERGY
What type of energy is stored in the bonds of molecules?
What is chemical energy?
What does ATP stand for?
What is adenosine triphosphate?
What green pigment absorbs light energy during photosynthesis?
What is chlorophyll?
What organelle is the main site of photosynthesis in plant cells?
What is a chloroplast?
What gives electrons in chlorophyll their energy?
What is light energy?
What molecule is the cell's main short-term energy carrier?
What is ATP?
What does ATP provide to cells?
What is usable energy?
What are molecules that absorb certain wavelengths of light called?
What are pigments?
What structures inside chloroplasts contain chlorophyll?
What are thylakoids?
What do we call electrons that have gained energy from light?
What are high-energy electrons?
What molecule is formed when ATP loses one phosphate group?
What is ADP?
What molecule is produced when ATP releases energy?
What is ADP?
What color of light does chlorophyll reflect?
What is green light?
What is the fluid-filled region surrounding the thylakoids called?
What is the stroma?
What happens to high-energy electrons after they are energized?
What is they are passed to other molecules?
What happens when ATP loses its third phosphate group?
What is energy is released for cellular work?
Name one type of cellular work that requires energy from ATP.
What is active transport, movement, or building molecules?
Which two colors of visible light does chlorophyll absorb especially well?
What are blue and red light?
What are stacks of thylakoids called?
What are grana?
What two energy-carrying molecules are produced using energy from the light-dependent reactions?
What are ATP and NADPH?
Why is ATP considered a short-term energy carrier rather than long-term energy storage?
What is ATP is constantly broken down and rebuilt as cells need energy?
What cycle allows cells to continually recycle ADP into ATP and ATP back into ADP?
What is the ATP cycle?
What happens to electrons in chlorophyll when chlorophyll absorbs light energy?
What is the electrons gain energy and become high-energy electrons?
Which part of the chloroplast captures light energy, and which part is involved in building sugars?
What are thylakoids for capturing light and the stroma for building sugars?
Complete the sequence:
Light → __________ → ATP & NADPH → __________
What is high-energy electrons ,→ , sugar production?