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Photo n Respiration
Term | Definition |
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Autotroph | Also known as producers, they are the photosynthetic organisms such as plants in an ecosystem |
Chloropoast | Site of photosynthesis |
Consumer | Organism that obtains their nutrients from eating other organisms (also known as heterotrophs) |
Guard Cells | Regulate the passage of water and gases into and out of a leaf |
Heterotroph | Organism that cannot make their own food and rely on getting it from other organisms (also known as consumer) |
Mitochondria | Site of cellular respiration |
Photosynthesis | Process of converting inorganic compounds (water and carbon dioxide) into glucose using light as an energy source |
Producer | Also known as autotrophs, they are organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis |
Recycling | Reusing materials instead of discarding them as waste |
Respiration | Life process that breaks apart glucose to create ATP |
Stomata | The opening in a leaf where gases and water are exchanged between the plant and the environment, controlled by guard cells. |
Solar energy | Energy that comes from the sun |