Chemical Mayhem
Balancing Act
Who's that Molecule!
Structural Engineering
#Goals
100

The chemical formula for oxygen in the air.

What is O2?

100

The numbers that go in the blanks of the equation

___ H2 + ___ O2 → ___H2O

to balance it.

What are 2, 1, 2?

100

The two reactants needed for photosynthesis.

What are water and carbon dioxide?

100

The number of membranes the chloroplast has.

What is two?

100

The goal of step four of photosynthesis.

What is to make glucose?

200

The chemical formula for water.

What is H2O?

200

The numbers that go in the blanks of the equation

___ C + ___ S8 → ___ CS2

to balance it.

What are 4, 1, 4?

200

The two products of photosynthesis.

What are glucose and oxygen?

200
The empty space in the chloroplast.

What is the stroma?

200
The goal of step one in photosynthesis.

What is to fill the thylakoid with as many hydrogens as possible?

300

The chemical formula for carbon dioxide.

What is CO2?

300

The numbers that go in the blanks of the equation

___ CO2 + ___ H2O → ___ C6H12O6 + ___ O2

to balance it.

What are 6, 6, 1, 6?

300

The molecule that acts like a bucket that transports hydrogen atoms, and the molecule that is comes from.

What are NADP and NADPH?

300

The coin-like structure found in the chloroplast where half of photosynthesis occurs.

What is the thylakoid?

300

The two ways in which step one is accomplished.

What are pumping the hydrogen in from the stroma using sunlight and splitting apart water in the thylakoid?

400

The chemical formula for glucose.

What is C6H12O6?

400

The numbers that go in the blanks of the equation

___ Li + ___ H2O → ___ LiOH + ___ H2

to balance it.

What are 2, 2, 2, 1?

400

The molecule used as an "energy currency" to allow chemical reaction to occur, and the molecule that is comes from.

What are ADP and ATP?

400
One of the many stacks found within the chloroplasts.

What is a granum?

400

The goal of step three of photosynthesis.

What is to create the 3-carbon molecules?

500

The chemical formula for starch.

What is C6H10O5?

500

The numbers that go in the blanks of the equation

___ C2H6 + ___ O2 → ___ CO2 + ___ H2O

to balance it.

What are 2, 7, 4, 6?

500

The five-carbon molecule hanging out in the stroma and that three-carbon molecules that it splits into.

What are RuBP and 3-PGA?

500

The connector between the stacks in the chloroplast that stops them from floating around.

What is the lamella?

500

The goal of step two of photosynthesis.

What is to create ATP and NADPH?