Chapter 8/9 Vocabulary

Question 1

organism that can grasp energy from sunlight of chemicals and use it to make food from inorganic compounds: aka: a producer

Answer 1

Autotroph

Question 2

one of the principal chemical compounds that organisms use to keep and realease energy

Answer 2

Adenosine Triphosphate

Question 3

saclike photosynthetic membrane found in chloroplasts

Answer 3

Thylakoid

Question 4

light collecting units of the chloroplast

Answer 4

Photosystem

Question 5

opening in the bottom of the leaf that lets carbon dioxide and oxygen diffuse into and out of the leaf

Answer 5

Stroma

Question 6

one of the carrier molecules that changes high energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules

Answer 6

NADP+

Question 7

reactions of photosynthesis that uses energy from a light source to make ATP and NADPH

Answer 7

Light- Dependent Reactions

Question 8

big building block of life that uses energy from hydrogen ions to join with ADP and a phosphate group together to make ATP

Answer 8

ATP Synthase

Question 9

reactions of photosynthesis when energy from ATP and NADPH is used to make high energy compounds: aka: sugar

Answer 9

Calvin cycle

Question 10

the total of energy that is necessary to make the temperature rise of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius

Answer 10

Calorie

Question 11

first step in letting the energy of glucose out, when a molecule of glucose is split into two molecules of pyruvic acid

Answer 11

Glycolysis

Question 12

electron carrier that is involved in glycolysis

Answer 12

NAD+

Question 13

process when cells release energy when there isn’t any oxygen

Answer 13

Fermentation

Question 14

process that doesn’t need oxygen

Answer 14

Anaerobic

Question 15

process that needs oxygen

Answer 15

Aerobic

Question 16

second stage of cellular respiration, when pyruvic acid is broken down into carbon dioxide in a series of energy- extracting reactions

Answer 16

Krebs Cycle

Question 17

a series of proteins when high energy electrons from the Krebs cycle are important to change ADP to ATP

Answer 17

ETC

Question 18

process when plants and other organisms use light energy to transfer H2O and carbon dioxide to oxygen and great- energy carbohydrates- sugar and starches

Answer 18

Photosynthesis

Question 19

Light absorbing molecule

Answer 19

Pigment

Question 20

principal pigment of plant and other photosynthetic organisms; captures light energy

Answer 20

Chlorophyll

Question 21

organism that gets energy from the food it eats: aka: consumer

Answer 21

Heterotroph