Photosynthesis 1
The process that uses energy from the sun to make food from water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
An energy-storing biomolecule made from carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
What is a carbohydrate (or a lipid)?
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 that is made from photosynthesis.
What is oxygen and glucose?
An organism that uses a primary energy source (like light) to conduct photosynthesis
What is a autotroph?
Cellular respiration occurs in this cell part.
What is mitochondria?
In what part of the chloroplast does the light dependent reaction take place?
What is the thylakoid membrane?
The chemical formula for glucose.
C6H12O6
In what part of the chloroplast does the light independent reaction take place?
What is the stroma?
Why do plants appear green?
Chlorophyll absorbs blue-violet and red light, but reflects light with wavelengths between 500-600 nm
This energy producing molecule is like a run-down battery.
What is ADP?
Plants usually store sugar as a _________.
What is starch?
Light-independent reactions use __________ to synthesize organic molecules from CO2.
ATP and NADPH
Light-dependent reactions capture energy from ________.
What is sunlight?