The Ingredients
This "invisible" gas is taken in by leaves from the air.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the specific part of the plant where most photosynthesis happens.
What are the leaves?
Plants make this type of sugar to use as food/energy.
What is glucose?
This is the name of the process plants use to make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
Plants soak up this liquid through their roots to stay hydrated.
What is water?
This green pigment acts like a "solar panel" to catch sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
This "waste" gas is released by plants, which humans need to breathe.
What is oxygen?
Unlike animals, plants are called this because they "produce" food
What are producers?
This is the primary source of energy that kicks off the whole process.
What is the sun?
These tiny "pores" or holes on the leaf let gases in and out.
What is stomata?
Plants turn light energy into glucose to use for this.
What is energy? (Chemical Energy)
This is where a plant gets the matter it needs to grow bigger.
What is air and water?
True or False: Most of a plant's "body" mass comes from the soil.
What is False?
This is the name for the tiny openings.
What is stomata?
This is what a plant does with extra sugar it doesn't use right away.
What is storing it?
If a plant has no light, it cannot make this, causing it to turn yellow
What is food? (Glucose/Sugar)
A scientist grows a willow tree in a pot for 5 years. The tree gains 150 lbs, but the soil only loses 2 ounces. Where did the 150 lbs of tree "matter" come from?
What is air and water?
If a leaf wrapped in aluminum foil stays on a plant for a week, what will happen to the part under the foil, and why?
It will stop making food. (Without sunlight, chlorophyll cannot energize the process, and the plant will consume its stored starch.)
During a very hot, dry Oklahoma summer, a plant closes its stomata to save water. How does this affect the plant's ability to make "food"?
It slows down or stops. (Closing stomata keeps water in, but it also blocks carbon dioxide from getting in, halting photosynthesis.)
In a sealed "Bio-Dome" with no outside air, why would an animal die if all the plants were removed?
What is a Lack of Oxygen and Food. (Plants are the only ones turning light into the chemical energy/oxygen that the animal needs to survive.)