Equation Persuasion
H2O
What is water?
Water is made of these two elements.
What is hydrogen and oxygen?
The little number to the right and below the hydrogen atom is called a what, H2O?
What is a subscript?
In what part of the plant does photosynthesis happen?
What is the leaf?
Name an organism that DOES photosynthesis
What is a plant?
CO2
What is carbon dioxide?
Gas exchange in the leaves of a plant allows this substance from the air to enter into the plant.
What is carbon dioxide?
These little green dots can move towards or away from the sun depending on how much exposure is needed.
The tiny pores in the bottom of leaves that take in carbon dioxide from the air.
What are stomata?
A chemical equation must be balanced to honor this rule of matter.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
What do we call the materials on the LEFT side (before the arrow) in a chemical equation.
What are reactants.
What is 12?
This substance allows plant cells to capture energy and store it in a glucose molecule.
Chlorophyll
The green pigment that absorbs and stores the energy of sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
What is the main purpose of photosynthesis FOR PLANTS?
What do we call the materials on the RIGHT side (after the arrow) in a chemical equation.
What are products?
This element hangs out as a pair, and is a waste product of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
Which cell organelle carries out a function of absorbing photons for photosynthesis?
What is a chlorophyll?
Photosynthesis occurs in this cell organelle.
What is a chloroplast?
What is the type of energy in photosynthesis.
C6H12O6
What is the chemical formula for glucose?
What three elements make up most of the food molecules.
Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen
The balanced chemical equation for photosynthesis.
Sun light + 6CO2 + 6H20 ---> C6H12O6 + 6O2
ATP is made and stored by this organelle for when it is needed.
What is mitochondria?
Sun, CO2, H2O, chloroplast, and chlorophyll