Cell Energy Basics
This is the process cells use to break down food and release energy.
What is Cellular respiration?
This type of respiration uses oxygen to make a large amount of energy.
What is Aerobic respiration?
This is the process plants use to make food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
What is Photosynthesis?
This tiny particle has a negative charge and moves around the nucleus of an atom.
What is Electron?
This molecule is known as the “energy currency” of the cell because it stores and releases energy.
What is Adenosine triphosphate?
This type of respiration happens without oxygen and makes less energy.
What is Anaerobic respiration?
This green pigment in plants absorbs sunlight for photosynthesis.
What is Chlorophyll?
This part of cellular respiration uses electrons to help produce a large amount of ATP.
What is Electron transport chain?
This type of molecule includes sugars and starches that cells use for energy.
What is Carbohydrate?
This is the first step of cellular respiration where glucose is broken down in the cytoplasm.
What is Glycolysis?
This organelle in plant cells is where photosynthesis takes place.
What is Chloroplast?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell” because it makes most of the cell’s energy.
What is Mitochondria?
This word describes all the chemical reactions that happen inside a living thing to keep it alive.
What is Metabolism?
This stage of respiration happens in the mitochondrial matrix and helps release energy from food molecules.
What is Krebs cycle?
This flattened sac inside the chloroplast holds chlorophyll and is where light reactions happen.
What is Thylakoid?
This is the space inside the mitochondria where the Krebs cycle takes place.
What is Mitochondrial matrix?
This word describes chemical reactions that happen in living organisms.
What is Biochemical?
This process follows glycolysis when there is no oxygen and helps make a small amount of energy.
What is Fermentation?
This is a stack of thylakoids inside a chloroplast.
What is Granum?
These are multiple stacks of thylakoids inside a chloroplast.
What is Grana?