The Equation
Making, Using, and Storing Food
Labs
Steps of Photosynthesis
Miscellaneous
100
A reactant of photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide or water
100
When plants make sugar molecules using energy from the sun.
What is photosynthesis
100
What are the tiny openings on the top or bottom of leaves called?
What is a stoma/stomate? (Plural - stomata)
100
Where the light dependent stage of photosynthesis occurs.
What is the thylakoid membrane
100
The alternative name for the light independent reaction.
What is the Calvin Cycle
200
A product of photosynthesis
What is glucose, oxygen, or water
200
Plants use the energy they produce to do this.
What is growth, reproduction, or repair of plant parts.
200
Stomata allow for ____________, in which CO2 enters the plant cells and H2O vapor leaves.
What is gas exchange
200
Where the light independent stage of photosynthesis occurs.
What is the stroma of the chloroplast
200
The two cells that surround the stomate and regulate its opening and closing.
What are guard cells
300
Light energy is transformed to _________ energy during the process of photosynthesis
What is chemical energy
300
An example of a carbohydrate that plants store.
What is starch or cellulose.
300
Evaporation of water from plants
What is transpiration
300
This happens in the light dependent stage of photosynthesis.
What is splitting a water molecule with solar energy
300
The reason leaves change color in the fall
What is chlorophyll is breaking down and the accessory pigments show through
400
______________ cannot consume their food and must instead make it.
What are autotrophs
400
The four elements in proteins.
What is CHON
400
A lab technique - separation of plant pigments based on mass and attraction to a solid surface
What is chromatography
400
This happens in the light independent stage of photosynthesis
What is forming glucose with the hydrogen from water molecules and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or from cellular respiration
400
The role of accessory pigments in plants.
What is to temporarily store solar energy while chlorophyll is busy
500
__ CO2 + __ H2O ----> __ C6H12O6 + __ O2 + __ H2O
What is 6 CO2 + 12 H2O ----> 1 C6H12O6 + 6 O2 + 6 H2O
500
Plants must obtain this nutrient from the soil to make proteins.
What is nitrogen
500
Name at least two accessory pigments
What are: chlorophyll, xanthophyll, carotenoid, flavenoid, anthocyanin
500
The role of NADP+ in photosynthesis.
What is to bring hydrogen atoms from the split water molecules from the light dependent reactions to the light independent reactions.
500
The wavelengths of light best absorbed by chlorophyll.
What are red and blue.
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