Photosynthesis Power
These are the two primary reactants plants need to begin photosynthesis.
What are water and carbon dioxide?
These two substances are the reactants required for cellular respiration to occur.
What are glucose and oxygen?
This molecule is the main energy currency used by cells to grow, move, and repair themselves.
What is ATP (adenosine triphosphate)?
The products of photosynthesis (glucose and oxygen) serve as the ________ for cellular respiration.
What are reactants?
These are two other terms for plants...one starts with an A and the other a P...
Autotrophs and Producers
This green pigment is responsible for capturing light energy from the sun.
What is chlorophyll?
In eukaryotic cells, the majority of cellular respiration occurs in this "powerhouse" organelle.
What is the mitochondria?
This is the term for an organism, like a plant, that can create its own food from light energy.
What is an autotroph (or producer)?
True or False: Only animals perform cellular respiration; plants only perform photosynthesis.
False. (All living organisms, including plants, carry out cellular respiration).
These are two terms for animals and other organisms that must eat food to get their glucose for cellular respiration
Consumers and Heterotrophs
Photosynthesis takes place inside this specific cell organelle.
What is the chloroplast?
This gas is released into the atmosphere as a waste product of cellular respiration.
What is carbon dioxide?
This process allows cells to release energy from food when oxygen is not present.
What is fermentation (or anaerobic respiration)?
This cycle occurs in the stroma of the chloroplast and converts carbon dioxide into sugar.
What is the Calvin cycle?
This is where all energy in a food chain come from originally?
What is the Sun
While plants get nutrients from the soil, most of their physical mass actually comes from this gas in the air.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the first step of cellular respiration; it happens in the cytoplasm and does not require oxygen.
What is glycolysis?
Plants often store their excess sugar in roots or seeds in this complex carbohydrate form.
What is starch?
This is the full, balanced chemical equation for cellular respiration.
What is C6H12O6+6O2→6CO2+6H2O+ATP?
These helps recycle energy in an ecosystem?
What are decomposers
Chlorophyll makes leaves look green because it reflects this color of light while absorbing others.
What is green?
Of the three steps of cellular respiration, this one produces the most ATP.
What is the electron transport chain?
To generate approximately 36 molecules of ATP, a cell must break down this many molecules of glucose.
What is one?
In the chloroplast, the light reactions occur in these membranes, while the dark reactions occur in the stroma.
What are the thylakoid membranes?
Do plants create new mass or energy?
No, remember the conservation of matter and energy laws.
Mass is never destroyed or created, atoms simply rearrange
Energy is never destroyed or created, it simply changed forms