What are the organisms that can undergo the process of photosynthesis?
Autotrophs: plants, bacteria, and algae
What are the organisms that can undergo the process of cellular respiration?
Plants, animals, fungi, bacteria.... all living organisms on Earth.
What is the main difference between the chemical reaction of photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
light energy in reactants is now ATP in products
What is the name for an organism that can produce its own energy/food?
Producer
The molecule ATP is produced and used to power the functions of the cell.
Cellular respiration
The REACTANTS in the process of photosynthesis.
Carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight
The REACTANTS in the process of cellular respiration.
Glucose and oxygen
The chemical formula for oxygen as it is used in photosynthesis/cellular respiration
6O2
What is the name for an organism that relies on other organisms to obtain food/energy?
Consumer
What is the name of the green pigment that aids plants in making food?
Chlorophyll
The PRODUCTS of photosynthesis.
Glucose and oxygen
The PRODUCTS of cellular respiration.
Carbon dioxide, water, and ATP
The chemical formula for water as it is used in photosynthesis/cellular respiration
6H2O
What are the organisms that obtain their energy from eating organisms that are dead and decaying?
Decomposers
What happens to the reactants within the process of photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
The number of atoms in the reactants side get rearranged/used up to make the products
What organelle does photosynthesis occur in?
Chloroplasts found in the leaves of plants.
What organelle does cellular respiration occur in?
Mitochondria
The chemical formula for carbon dioxide as it is used in photosynthesis/cellular respiration
6CO2
Another name for producers, meaning to "self-feed".
Autotrophs
How does matter cycle between plants and animals?
Write out the chemical reaction for photosynthesis
6H2O + 6CO2 + light ---> C6H12O6 + 6O2
Write out the chemical reaction for cellular respiration
C6H12O6 + 6O2 ---> 6H2O + 6CO2 + ATP
The chemical formula for glucose
C6H12O6
Another name for consumers.
Heterotrophs
How does energy flow from the sun to animals?