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Plant Processes
Sol 7.5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |