When an organism acquires energy by feeding on other organisms.
What is heterotrophy?
100
The molecule that is oxidized into O2.
What is water?
100
Radiation from the sun that travels as a wave and a particle.
What is electromagnetic radiation?
100
The tissue in a plant that is located between the epidermises.
What is the mesophyll?
100
The vascular tissue that transports food/glucose molecules throughout the plant.
What is phloem?
200
The most important process for life.
What is photosynthesis?
200
The high energy molecule made from photosynthesis.
What is glucose?
200
Two elements incredibly important in chlorophyll.
What are magnesium and nitrogen?
200
Tissue with room for air between the cells.
What is spongy tissue?
200
Cells that regulate the hole in the leaf by expanding when water is present (opening the hole), or shriveling when dehydrated (closing the hole) to avoid dehydration.
What are guard cells?
300
When an organism makes it's own food.
What is autotrophy?
300
The range of electromagnetic radiation used to convert CO2 into glucose.
What is visible light?
300
The reason you see a particular color.
What is reflection?
300
The hole that allows gas exchange in a leaf.
What is a stoma?
300
A structure inside a chloroplast that contains the plant pigments.
What is a thylakoid?
400
Organisms such as animals, pathogens, and parasites that feed on live organisms.
What are consumers?
400
The molecule that is reduced into glucose.
What is CO2?
400
A packet of light.
What is a photon?
400
Tissue that looks like columns, located under the top layer of epidermis.
What is palisade?
400
The thick fluid inside the chloroplast where some parts of photosynthesis take place.
What is the stroma?
500
The energy input in the endergonic reaction of photosynthesis.
What is sunlight?
500
The waste product of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
500
The dominant pigment in plants.
What is chlorophyll?
500
Wax coating on the leaf for waterproofing.
What is the cuticle?
500
Vascular tissue that transfers water throughout the plant.