Photosynthesis
Basics
Basics
The primary source of energy that plants capture to drive photosynthesis.
What is sunlight (or light energy).
The organelle known as the "powerhouse of the cell" where cellular respiration primarily occurs.
What is the mitochondria
The ultimate original source of energy for almost all living things on Earth.
What is the Sun
Organisms like mushrooms and bacteria that break down dead organic matter and return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers
In a chemical equation, the starting materials on the left side of the arrow are called this.
What are reactants
The cell organelle found in plant cells where photosynthesis takes place.
What is the chloroplast.
True or False: Cellular respiration occurs in BOTH plant and animal cells.
True
Organisms that can make their own food through photosynthesis are called autotrophs or this term.
What are producers
The outputs of photosynthesis serve as the ________ for cellular respiration.
What are the inputs (or reactants)
In a chemical equation, the substances formed on the right side of the arrow are called this.
What are products
The two main inputs (reactants) required for a plant to perform photosynthesis.
What is Water and Carbon Dioxide
The two main inputs (reactants) required for cellular respiration.
What are glucose and oxygen
According to the Law of Conservation of Mass, this happens to matter during chemical reactions like photosynthesis.
What is matter is neither created nor destroyed
If all plant life in a sealed terrarium were removed, this gas would rapidly decrease, causing animal life to perish.
What is oxygen
Explain why the chemical equations for photosynthesis and cellular respiration are called "opposite" or "complementary" processes.
What is the products of photosynthesis are the reactants of cellular respiration (and vice versa)
The gas produced as a byproduct of photosynthesis that plants release into the atmosphere?
What is Oxygen
The primary purpose of cellular respiration in living organisms
What is to release usable energy (ATP) from food/glucose
How producers transformed light energy during photosynthesis, transforming light energy into this form of stored energy in glucose.
What is chemical energy
The gas that animals release during cellular respiration that plants rely on to perform photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide
Write or state the simple word equation for Photosynthesis.
What is Carbon Dioxide + Water + Light Energy --> Glucose + Oxygen
The high-energy sugar molecule produced during photosynthesis that plants use for food and growth.
What is Glucose
The waste products released by cells during cellular respiration.
What are carbon dioxide and water
When a fallen leaf or dead organism decomposes in a forest, explain what happens to the matter (atoms) that made up its body
What is decomposers break down the organism and recycle the atoms back into the soil and air (carbon dioxide)
While matter continuously cycles through an ecosystem, energy does this.
What is flows in one direction (and is eventually lost as heat)
Write or state the simple word equation for Cellular Respiration.
What is Glucose + Oxygen --> Carbon Dioxide + Water + Energy (ATP)