Photosynthesis 1
What is Photosynthesis?
The process that uses energy from the sun to make food from water and carbon dioxide
What is glucose?
The energy molecule produced from photosynthesis
What is heterotroph?
Things that gets or finds their own food
What is reactants?
Left side (before the arrow) in a chemical equation
What is products?
Right side (after the arrows) in a chemical equation
What is chlorophyll?
The pigment that absorbs and stores the energy of sunlight
What is water?
Photosynthesis uses light energy, carbon dioxide, and _______ to produce oxygen and sugar
What is water?
When the sun shines on a plant, the leaves can make food from carbon dioxide and ______
What is an autotroph?
Producers that make their own food
What are sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water?
Photosynthesis needs these 3 things to work
What are stomates?
The tiny pores in the bottom of leaves that take in carbon dioxide from the air
What are glucose/sugar?
Starch is made from a chain of ___________
What are chloroplasts?
Photosynthesis takes place in these cell parts
What is energy (ATP)?
When we eat, our body gets _________ from the sugars stored in the food
What is oxygen?
The product, know as a waste product, that is made from photosynthesis
What is a producer/autotroph?
An organism that uses a primary energy source (like light) to conduct photosynthesis
What is 6H2O + 6CO2 → 6O2 + C6H12O6?
The formula for photosynthesis
What are carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight?
The reactants in photosynthesis
What are chloroplasts?
What are glucose and oxygen?
The products of photosynthesis
What are guard cells?
A cell that regulates the size of a stomate
What is oxygen?
In experiment 1, leaf discs floated to the top of a beak when exposed to light due to the production of _______
What is starch?
*hint-a large sugar
Plants usually store sugar as a __________
What is C6H12O6?
The chemical formula for glucose
What is starch?
A reaction between iodine and _______ caused part of the leaf to turn black.