Photosynthesis 1
The process that uses energy from the sun to make food from water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
A compound made from carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
What is a carbohydrate?
Things that get or find their own food.
What is a heterotroph?
Left side (before the arrow) in a chemical equation.
What is reactants?
Right side (after the arrow) in a chemical equation.
What is products?
The chemical that absorbs and stores the energy of sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
Photosynthesis uses light energy, carbon dioxide, and ______ to produce oxygen and sugar.
What is water?
When the sun shines on a plant, the leaves can make food from carbon dioxide and ________.
What is water?
Producers that make their own food.
What is an autotroph?
Photosynthesis needs these three things to work.
What are sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water?
The tiny pores in the bottom of leaves that take in carbon dioxide from the air.
What are stomata?
Starches and sugars are _____________.
What are carbohydrates?
Photosynthesis takes place in these cell parts.
What are chloroplasts?
When we eat food, our body gets ________ from the carbohydrates stored in the food.
What is energy?
The product, known as a waste product, that is made from photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
An organism that uses a primary energy source (like light) to conduct photosynthesis
What is a producer?
Cellular respiration occurs in this cell part.
What is mitochondria?
Another term for heat.
What is infrared?
The cell parts known as food factories.
What are chloroplasts?
The seven forms of electromagnetic radiation that comes from the sun.
What is visible light, radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet light, x-rays, and gamma rays?
Phase or type of reaction where water gets separated into Hydrogen and Oxygen.
What is phase one or light reactions?
Light waves with a shorter wavelength has ____ energy.
What is more?
Plants usually store sugar as a _________.
What is starch?
The chemical formula for glucose.
What is 6H2O + 6CO2 → 6O2 + C6H12O6?
Phase or type of reaction where glucose gets made.
What is phase two or dark reactions?