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PLANT PROCESSES
SOL 7.5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| PHOTOSYNTHESIS | Plants absorb sunlight and turn that energy into food; the process is known as photosynthesis. |
| RESPIRATION | Respiration is the act of breathing. You wear a ventilator if you need help with your respiration. |
| STOMATA | a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass |
| GUARD CELLS | each of a pair of curved cells that surround a stoma, becoming larger or smaller according to the pressure within the cells. |
| CHLOROPHYLL | Chlorophyll makes plants green. It's basically a group of green pigments used by organisms that convert sunlight into energy via photosynthesis. |
| CHLOROPLASTE | The chloroplast is the place in a plant cell where photosynthesis happens. Your rose bushes have chloroplasts, but you don’t. |
| LIGHT DEPENDENT REACTION | use light energy to make two molecules needed for the next stage of photosynthesis: the energy storage molecule In plants, the light reactions take place in the thylakoid membranes of organelles called chloroplasts. |
| LIGHT INDEPENDENT REACTION | These reactions occur in the stroma, the fluid-filled area of a chloroplast outside the thylakoid membranes. |
| ENERGY PYRAMID | An energy pyramid is a graphical model of energy flow in a community. The different levels represent different groups of organisms that might compose a food chain. |
| PRODUCER | A producer is a maker or manufacturer of something. |
| MITOCHONDRION | an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy |
| AUTOTROPHS | is a plant that can make its own food. |
| CONSUMER | A consumer is someone who buys or consumes, or uses up, something. An economy could not keep functioning without consumers. |
| Herbivore | Herbivores eat plants. |
| OMNIVORE | An omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals for their main food. |
| HETEROTROPHS | is an animal that can’t make its own food supply, so they have to eat other things, like plants or other animals, to survive. |
| CARNIVORES | is something that feeds on the flesh of animals. |
| DECOMPOSERS | an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material. |
| SPONGY LAYER | a layer of loosely packed and irregularly shaped chlorophyll-bearing cells that fills the part of a leaf between the palisade layer and the lower epidermis -- called also spongy parenchyma, spongy tissue. |
| PALISADE LAYER | a layer of parallel elongated cells below the epidermis of a leaf. |
| RAW MATERIALS | the basic material from which a product is made. |
| OXYGEN | a colorless, odorless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air. |
| CARBON DIOXIDE | a colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and by respiration. It is naturally present in air (about 0.03 percent) and is absorbed by plants in photosynthesis. |
| GLUCOSE | a simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates. |
| PRODUCT | is a substance that is formed as the result of a chemical reaction. ... The number and type of atoms on the reactants side of the equation are the same as the number |
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