vocabulary
The process of making food in a plant is called_______.
What is photosynthesis?
H2O
What is water?
Carbohydrates are forms of ______________.
What is sugar?
Who absorbs water?
What are the roots?
How much of the Earth’s oxygen supply is produced by photosynthesis in marine plants and algae?
About 50% of the Earth's oxygen is produced by oceanic plants and algae.
The green pigment located in the chloroplast that traps the energy from the sun is called_____________.
What is chlorophyll?
CO2
What is carbon dioxide?
Who goes through the process of photosynthesis?
What are plants (producers) and some bacteria?
Who captures energy from the sun?
What are the leaves (chloroplasts)?
The Amazon Rainforest, often called "the lungs of the Earth," produces what percentage of the world's oxygen through photosynthesis?
What is about 20%.
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?
O2
What is oxygen?
Chlorophyll is green because_______________.
Chlorophyll absorbs all other colors but reflects green.
Who converts glucose and oxygen into usable energy, carbon dioxide, and water?
What is the mitochondria?
True or False: Photosynthesis only happens during the day.
What is false.
The process by which glucose and oxygen break down to release stored energy is called________________.
What is cellular respiration?
6CO2 + 6H2O + Sunlight --> C6H12O6 + 6O2
What is Photosynthesis?
What organisms go through the process of photosynthesis?
What all living things: plants, fungi.
This gas is absorbed by the plant to make glucose.
What is carbon dioxide?
Can photosynthesis happen in the dark?
What is no.
Glucose is a different form of___________.
What is sugar?
C6H12O6 + O2 --> CO2 + H2O + ATP
What is Cellular Respiration?
The energy from sunlight is stored in the form of this high-energy molecule during the light-dependent reactions.
What is ATP (adenosine triphosphate)?
This molecule is produced by the light-dependent reactions and helps power the Calvin Cycle.
What is ATP?
What everyday fruit gets its energy from photosynthesis and is full of vitamin C?
What is an orange.