Vocab 1
The type of sugar made during photosynthesis
What is glucose?
Gas taken in and used during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
Energy from the sun that is used by plants to produce their own food by the process of photosynthesis
What is light energy?
Where do most plants get energy from?
The sun
Why don't plants need to eat?
They make their own food with photosynthesis
Absorbs light energy.
Pigment that gives a plant its green color. Found in the chloroplast
The part of the plant where most photosynthesis takes place
What is the leaf?
Converting light energy to the chemical energy of food, in plants
What is photosynthesis?
The part of the plant that absorbs water from the soil
What are the roots?
How do plants help our air quality?
By taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen
Product of photosynthesis
What is oxygen?
Carbon dioxide + water --> glucose and oxygen
What is the photosynthesis word equation?
A substance used in a chemical reaction
What is a reactant?
We breath out gas B, plants breath in gas B. We breath in gas A, plants breath out gas A. Gas A is...
Gas A is oxygen
The waste product of photosynthesis
What is oxygen?
Tiny holes in the leaves of the plant where gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen enter and exit
What is stomata?
A substance that is formed by a chemical reaction
What is a product?
Something made during a chemical reaction that isn't what we were trying to make (the dirty dishes)
What is a byproduct?
An artificial (man-made) way that plants get light energy if they can't get sunlight
What are LED lights?
(Or lamps or lights)
Why might leaves farther from the sun have broader (wider) leaves?
To catch more sunlight
Organelle where photosynthesis takes place.
What is chloroplast?
CO2+H2O --> C6H12O6 + O2
What is the photosynthesis symbol equation?
Tubes that carry water and nutrients around the plant
What is xylem?
A natural way that photosynthesis can get energy, other than the sun
What are underwater steam vents?
(Or underwater volcanoes or underwater magma)
What is the first step in photosynthesis?
Chlorophyll in the leaf captures sunlight