Question | Answer |
The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. | Photosynthesis |
The series of metabolic processes by which living cells produce energy through the oxidation of organic substances. | Cellular Respiration |
the green coloring matter of leaves and plants, essential to the production of carbohydrates by photosynthesis, and occurring in a bluish-black form | Chlorophyll |
A chlorophyll-containing plastid found in algal and green plant cells. | Chloroplast |
a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. | Potassium |
a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries. | Magnesium |
Relating to, or containing phosphorus, especially with valence 3 or a valence lower than that of a comparable phosphoric compound. | Phosphorous |
a nonmetallic element that exists in several forms, the ordinary one being a yellow rhombic crystalline solid, and that burns with a blue flame and a suffocating odor: used esp. in making gunpowder and matches, in medicine, in vulcanizing rubber | Sulfur |
A silvery, moderately hard metallic element that constitutes approximately 3 percent of the earth's crust and is a basic component of most animals and plants. | Calcium |
A nonmetallic element that constitutes nearly four-fifths of the air by volume | Nitrogen |
| Zink |
| Boron |
| Copper |
| Stomata |
| Transpiration |
| Xylem |
| Phloem |
| Capillarity |
| Osmosis |
| Diffusion |