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Plant Processes
Sol 7.5
Term | Definition |
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Photosynthesis | Use sunlight to make food |
Respiration | produces and releases energy |
Stomata | pores in the epidermis in a leaf |
Guard Cells | A curved cell that surrounds the stoma |
Chlorophyll | A green pigment located in the chloroplast |
Light dependent reaction | use sunlight to make two molecules used for photosynthesis |
Light independent reaction | a chemical reaction that converts other compounds into glucose |
Energy Pyramid | A energy flow in a community |
Producer | make their own food |
Mitochondrion | release energy from cell |
Autotrophs | An organism that is able to produce nutritional organic substances |
Consumers | An organism that gets food from other producers |
Herbivore | A person or an animal that only eats plants |
Carnivores | A person or animal, or thing that eats only flesh |
Decomposers | An organism that decomposes organic material |
Spongy layer | loosely packed chlorophyll that fills part of a leaf |
Palisade layer | A layer of parallel elongated cells on the epidermis of a leaf. |
Raw materials | The basic material from which the product is made |
oxygen | Used for plants and animals during the respiration process |
carbon dioxide | what we breathe after we breathe oxygen |
Glucose | Plant food |
Products | something manufactured by an organelle |