The process that uses energy from the sun and water and carbon dioxide to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
A gas made from one atom of carbon, 2 atoms of oxygen.
What is a carbon dioxide (CO2)?
(not just carbon!)
The parts of the plant that is visible to the naked eye and absorbs the carbon dioxide
What are leaves?
Are found on the Periodic Table as a capital letter or a capital letter with a lowercase letter
What are elements?
Is missing from the equation 6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2.
What is sunlight or light energy?
Gas removed from the atmosphere during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
The tiny pores in the bottom of leaves that take in carbon dioxide from the air.
What is stomata?
When the sun shines on a plant, the leaves can make food from water and ________.
What is carbon dioxide?
Multiple atoms stuck together. It was represented by the sticks or springs in the ball and stick models.
What is a chemical bond?
The chemical formula for glucose
What is C6H12O6?
The by-product, known as a waste product, that is made from photosynthesis
What is oxygen?
Another (more common) name for glucose
What is sugar?
Plants are green because of this pigment
What is chlorophyll?
The stick and ball models below are all representations of this chemical vocab word
What are molecules?
Photosynthesis uses light energy, carbon dioxide, and ______ to produce oxygen and sugar.
What is water?
Bubbles in the photosynthesis experiment.
What is oxygen?
The molecule that absorbs the light energy in photosynthesis in a plant cell
What is chlorophyll
Water is pulled up from the roots in this.
What is the xylem?
The basic chemistry word that describes the image
What is a mixture?
The molecules are needed in order for a plant to gain mass
what is carbon dioxide and water?
The glucose is moved through this vocab word in the stem of the plant
What is phloem?
Cellulose is a type of starch. Cellulose is made up of what sub-units?
What is glucose (many glucoses)?
Plant parts that absorb water and nutrients
What are roots?
A pure substance made of only one type of atom
What is an element?
The two things I denied the plants (the things that should have given me pale, non-black leaves) in my demonstration at the beginning of the unit.
What is carbon dioxide and sunlight