Photosynthesis: Making Energy
Plants are considered _____________ beacuse unlike humans, they make their own _________ using this process
Autotrophs, food
Whats the formula for photosynthesis?
C02 + H20 + Sunlight -----> C6H1206 + O2 ( this formula says that carbon dioxide + water molecules are combined with the energy from the sunlight to produce sugar and oxygen)
What is the mulecular formula for Glucose?
C6H12O6
What are the reactants in photosynthesis? (what is used)
CO2, Water, and sun
The Plant collects what from the air?
Carbon Dioxide
Where does the plan get the water?
From the ground through its roots
What is the Products of photosynthesis?
Glucose and oxygen,
Wheres the site of photosynthesis?
In the chloroplast
What is chloroplast?
It is an organelle found in the leaves of green plants
During this process , _______ is created as a waste produce and is released in the air for us to ________
Oxygen (O2), breath
What Is Photosythesis?
Photosynthesis is a process inwhich sunlight energy is used to make glucose.
Plants make what to do what?
Plants make sugar by using the energy from sunlight to transform CO2 from the air with water from the ground into glucose this process, called photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplast of the plant cell.
Why is photosynthesis essential?
beacuse it provides food and oxygen,
The oxygen produced is released into the air for us to _____
breath
How do we also use glucose?
by eating plants
How is the glucose produced?
by the plant for energy and growth
What does Chlorophyll reflect on ?
green and yellow wavelengths of light
Much Of Carbon Dioxide comes from _____________________
living organisms that exhale (breath it out) ( but some also come from factory smokestacks and car fumes)
What does Chlorophyll absorb?
most of the colors in the color spectrum
What Is Glucose is another name for?
sugar
What do Chloroplasts contain?
the pigment, chlorophyll
What are the main functions of chloroplasts?
they produce food (glucose) during photosynthesis, and to store food energy