Photosynthesis
What process do plants use to make their own food?
What is photosynthesis?
What is the basic unit of life?
What are cells?
What are the starting substances in a chemical reaction called?
What are reactants?
What is an organism called that breaks down dead plants and animals?
What are decomposers?
What are the tiny particles that make up all matter?
What are atoms
What gas do plants take in from the air during photosynthesis?
What is carbon dioxide?
What organelle is called the “control center” of the cell?
What is the nucleus?
What are the ending substances in a chemical reaction called?
What are products?
Name one common decomposer.
What are fungi/mushrooms or bacteria?
What do you call two or more atoms bonded together?
What are molecules?
What organelle in plant cells carries out photosynthesis?
What are chloroplasts?
Which organelle produces energy for the cell?
What is mitochondria?
Name one sign that a chemical reaction may have happened.
What is color change, gas production, temperature change, smell change, or new substance formed?
Why are decomposers important to ecosystems?
What is they recycle nutrients back into the environment?
Water (H₂O) is made of what two elements?
What are hydrogen and oxygen?
What type of energy powers photosynthesis?
What is sunlight energy?
What structure surrounds a plant cell and helps support it?
What is a cell wall?
True or False: Matter disappears during a chemical reaction.
What is false
Without decomposers, what would happen to dead organisms?
What is they would pile up and nutrients wouldn’t be recycled?
True or false molecules are made of cells
What is false
Name the products of photosynthesis.
What are oxygen and glucose?
A plant is kept in a dark closet for several days. Why will it eventually have trouble surviving?
What is it cannot do photosynthesis to make glucose/food without light and will run out
What law says matter cannot be created or destroyed?
What is the law of conservation of matter?
A student says mushrooms are plants because they don’t move. Explain why that student is incorrect using evidence from decomposers and cells.
What is Mushrooms are fungi, not plants. They are decomposers, don’t do photosynthesis, and get energy by breaking down dead matter.
There are 3 subatomic particles that make up atoms- name one.
What is proton, neutron or electron?