Vocabulary
The process of using sunlight to make sugar in a plant is called___________.
What is photosynthesis?
What is another name for the light independent reaction?
What is the Calvin cycle?
The green pigment located in the chloroplast that traps the energy from the sun is called_____________.
What is chlorophyll?
O2
What is oxygen?
Gas that is given off as a product during the light dependent reaction.
What is oxygen? O2
Who goes through the process of photosynthesis and makes their own food? (be specific!)
What are autotrophs
The guard cells tell these tiny openings in a leaf to allow carbon dioxide to enter a plant, and oxygen and water vapor to exit a plant.
What are stomata?
True or false? Carbon dioxide is a product of photosynthesis.
What is false.
The reactant of the light dependent reaction
What is water? H2O
The molecule made of an adenine, a ribose, and a chain of three phosphate groups attached to the ribose that store energy.
What is ATP?
True or false? Carbon dioxide and oxygen products of photosynthesis.
What is false.
The light dependent takes place in the ________ of the chloroplast, while the light independent takes place in the ___________ of the chloroplast.
What are the thylakoids and stroma
_______ are stacks of thylakoids.
What are Grana?
Fructose, sucrose, and glucose are all different forms of___________.
What is sugar?
These two are transferred over from the light dependent reaction to supply energy into the light independent reaction.
What is ATP and NADH?
_________ colored lights will not allow plants to do photosynthesis.
What is green?