Vocabulary
The process of making food in a plant.
What is photosynthesis?
True or false? Water is a reactant in the photosynthetic process.
What is true?
Absorbs water for a plant.
What are the roots?
Carbohydrates are forms of this.
What is sugar?
The green pigment located in the chloroplast that traps the energy from the sun.
What is chlorophyll?
Organelle in the leaf that captures energy from the sun
What is a chloroplast?
Performs the process of photosynthesis?
What are plants (producers) and some bacteria?
The tiny openings in a leaf to allow carbon dioxide to enter a plant, and oxygen and water vapor to exit a plant.
What are stomata?
Allow gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen to enter and exit the plant.
What are the stomata?
The reason chlorophyll appears green.
What is: Chlorophyll absorbs red-orange and blue-violet, but reflects green.
The process by which glucose and oxygen break down to release stored energy.
What is cellular respiration?
Transports water from the roots to the leaves and other parts of the plant.
What is the xylem?
The organisms that go through the process of cellular respiration
What are all living things?
Soluble carbohydrates that provides energy for cells.
What are sugars?
Converts glucose and oxygen into usable energy, carbon dioxide, and water.
What are the mitochondria?
What is the Calvin cycle?
What is the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis that converts carbon dioxide into glucose, or sugars?