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Photosynthesis
Question | Answer |
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What is photosynthesis? | The process by which a cell captures energy in sunlight and uses it to make food |
Producer | An organism that makes its own food or an autotroph |
Consumer | An organism that cannot make its own food or an heterotroph |
Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food |
Heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food |
Stoma | Aloe gases such as carbon dioxide water vapor and oxygen to move rapidly into and out of the leaf |
Glucose | Hydrogen and carbon dioxide go through the reactions the result in sugar |
How does a plant capture the sun's energy? | By chlorophyll in the chloroplasts |
What enters the plant through the stoma? | Co2 |
What happens to the water? | Turns into glucose |
How do they make sugars/ glucose using the hydrogen and oxygen from the water? | By a chemical reaction |
What is the waste product of photosynthesis? | Oxygen |
What is chlorophyll? | Works like the solar cells in a solar powered calculator |
Photosynthesis equation in words… not the chemical equation! | Sunlight is absorbed by chlorophyll in the chloroplasts. That solar energy is used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. During a series of chemical reactions that hydrogen forms with carbon dioxide that enters the plant through the stomata or form |
Products and reactants of photosynthesis (what does the cell need for photosynthesis to happen and what comes out of the process?) | It needs light energy, carbon dioxide, water, glucose, and oxygen |
Explain the process of photosynthesis in steps or stages |