Photosynthesis 1
The process that uses energy from the sun to make food from water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
What are two forms of light energy that can be used for photosynthesis?
sunlight, lamp, any light source...
What is the gas that humans/animals breathe in and plants breathe out?
Oxygen
Photosynthesis NEEDS these three things to work.
What are sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water?
What is Chlorophyll?
The green pigment that absorbs and stores the energy of sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
Photosynthesis uses light energy, carbon dioxide, and ______ to produce oxygen and sugar.
What is water?
When the sun shines on a plant, the leaves can make food from carbon dioxide and ________.
What is water?
True or False
Both plants and animals do cellular respiration (breathe)
TRUE
A gas in the atmosphere that is used by plants in order to do photosynthesis. It is put into the atmosphere when animals and people breathe out.
What is carbon dioxide?
The tiny openings in the bottom of leaves that take in carbon dioxide from the air.
What are stomata?
These are 3 things are USED in photosynthesis?
What are carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight?
What gas do plants MAKE?
Oxygen
What do we call the things that are made during photosynthesis (sugar and oxygen)?
Hint: starts with a P
Products
A sugar that is made by plants in photosynthesis.
What is glucose?
Name an organism that DOES photosynthesis
What is a plant or tree?
In addition to oxygen, what is produced during photosynthesis?
What is a glucose?
What is the type of energy in photosynthesis.
Light energy or sunlight
What do plants MAKE during photosynthesis?
Sugar and Oxygen
A gas that is produced during photosynthesis. It is necessary for cells to do their job. Without this, animals/people cannot survive.
What is oxygen?
WHERE in a plant does photosynthesis happen?
What is the leaf?
Summarize the photosynthesis process
Plants/producers take in sunlight, water/nutrients, and carbon dioxide. They use these products to make sugar (glucose) and oxygen.
True or False
Both plants and animals do photosynthesis.
FALSE
What is another name for sugar in the photosynthesis process?
Glucose
Holes on the underside of the leaves that take in carbon dioxide and allow air to be released into the air.
What is stomata?