Photosynthesis Basics
This green pigment found in chloroplasts absorbs sunlight for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
The two main raw materials needed for photosynthesis.
What are carbon dioxide and water?
This substance is broken down to release oxygen during photosynthesis.
What is water?
These were the first type of cells to be discovered with a microscope.
What are plant cells?
A plant would produce less oxygen on this type of day due to reduced sunlight.
What is a cloudy day?
This organelle is where photosynthesis takes place in plant cells.
What is the chloroplast?
This gas is released as a waste product during photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
This gas is taken in by plants and used to produce glucose during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
Because their walls are rigid, plant cells do not burst when they absorb excess water.
What are cell walls?
These are the raw materials needed for Stage 2 of photosynthesis.
What are hydrogen (from Stage 1) and carbon dioxide (from the air)?
The process of photosynthesis converts light energy into this type of energy.
What is chemical energy?
The simple sugar produced by photosynthesis that plants use for energy.
What is glucose?
The primary source of energy that drives photosynthesis.
What is sunlight?
Marsh plants help prevent flooding by absorbing excess water, making marshlands a natural form of this.
What is flood control?
In Stage 1 of photosynthesis, this type of energy is converted into a form that is used in Stage 2.
What is light energy?
These tiny openings on the underside of leaves allow gases to enter and exit.
What are stomata?
This part of the plant contains the most chloroplasts and is the primary site of photosynthesis.
What are the leaves?
The number of molecules of oxygen produced for every one molecule of glucose.
What is six?
85% of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere comes from these types of plants.
What are ocean plants?
These three elements enter the chloroplast to begin the process of photosynthesis.
What are light, water, and carbon dioxide?
Plants appear green because chlorophyll reflects this color of light
What is green?
The part of the plant that absorbs water for photosynthesis.
What are the roots?
The full chemical equation for photosynthesis.
What is 6CO₂ + 6H₂O + light → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂?
Plants and algae in the water absorb about one-sixth of this energy that falls on Earth.
What is solar energy (or the sun’s energy)?
Plants are important to humans because they release this gas, which we need to breathe.
What is oxygen?