Photosynthesis
This is the process plants use to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Plants need these two main reactants for photosynthesis.
What is Carbon Dioxide and Water?
(Light energy is acceptable to)
This part of the plant absorbs water from the soil, which is later used in photosynthesis.
What are the roots?
This is the process cells use to break down glucose and make ATP.
What is Cellular Respiration?
This long-term carbon storage forms underground over millions of years and is released when humans burn it.
What is fossil fuels?
Plants use this type of energy from the Sun to power photosynthesis.
What is light energy?
These are the two main products of photosynthesis.
What are glucose and oxygen?
Photosynthesis happens inside this organelle.
What is the chloroplast?
Cellular respiration mostly happens in this organelle.
What is the Mitochondria?
This natural process returns carbon to the soil and air when dead plants and animals break down.
What is decomposition?
Photosynthesis mainly makes this molecule that plants use for energy.
What is Glucose?
Plants take in this gas from the air as a reactant.
What is carbon dioxide?
This green pigment inside chloroplasts absorbs light energy.
What is Chlorophyll?
Animals and plants both need ATP to perform this important function.
What is cellular respiration?
This human activity adds extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels.
What is driving cars / burning gasoline? (Accept any fossil fuel example.)
This is the main reason photosynthesis is important for life on Earth.
What is it produces oxygen and food for the ecosystem?
This gas is released by plants during photosynthesis.
What is Oxygen?
Main organisms that do photosynthesis.
What are plants?
Cellular respiration needs this gas that humans and animals breathe in.
What is Oxygen?
This is the term for carbon moving through the environment, from air → plants → animals → air.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
Plants are called this because they can make their own food.
What is Autotrophs?
This type of energy goes into photosynthesis but is not written as a product.
What is Ligh Energy?
Without chloroplasts, a plant wouldn't be able to make this type of energy-rich molecule.
What is Glucose?
Cellular respiration makes this energy molecule that cells can actually use.
What is ATP?
Carbon can move from plants to animals when this happens.
What is eating? (Animals eat plants and take in their carbon.)