Vocabulary
Light Dependent Reaction
Calvin Cycle
(Light Independent Reaction)
General
General
100
CAN make their own food (through photosynthesis)

Autotrophs

100

During the Electron Transport Chain, Hydrogen ions get pumped from the ________ into the _________

From the stroma into the thylakoid

100

The Calvin Cycle uses _______ to make _______

Carbon Dioxide, Glucose

100

Three reactants of photosynthesis

Sunlight, Water, Carbon Dioxide
100

Two products of photosynthesis

Oxygen and Glucose

200

Organelle that carries out photosynthesis

Chloroplast

200

The photosystem in which NADP+ becomes NADPH

Photosystem II

200

The three steps of the Calvin Cycle in order

1. Carbon Fixation

2. Reduction

3. Regeneration

200

Where are pigments located in the chloroplast?

In the thylakoids

200

Cacti do this type of photosynthesis

CAM

300

The green pigment in a chloroplast

Chlorophyll

300

Splitting water results in these three products

Hydrogen ions, electrons, oxygen

300

G3P makes some _______ for the plant and some _________ to keep the Calvin Cycle going

Glucose, RuBP
300

The color of light Chlorophyll-b absorbs most of

Blue

300
The 3 or 4 in C3 or C4 means this

3 or 4-carbon compounds made in the Calvin Cycle

400

The enzyme that helps in the Calvin Cycle

Rubisco

400

NADPH is made for this reason

It conducts electricity/energy much better/longer than the Electron Transport Chain

400
The result of the Carbon Fixation step of the Calvin Cycle

3 PGAs

400

C3 plants have their stomata open...

during the day

400

The amount of Calvin Cycles it takes to make one glucose molecule

Six

500

C₆H₁₂O₆

Glucose!

500

This triggers ATP synthase to turn ADP into ATP

Hydrogen ions being pumped out of the thylakoid

500

The result of the Reduction step of the Calvin Cycle

G3P (PGAL)

500

C4 plants have their stomata open...

partially at the hottest time of day

500
How PGA is made in the Calvin Cycle

Carbon Dioxide reacts with RuBP