extra 2 Flashcards
Tiny pores found in leaves and stems that allow the exchange of gases?
Stomata
The food-making process in green plants that use sunlight?
Photosynthesis
A group of chemical compounds made from carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen?
Carbohydrate
The process in which energy is released from food (sugar) inside a cell?
Cellular Respiration
What do all living things need to survive?
Energy
Where do plants get their energy to make their own food?
From sunlight
Where does photosynthesis occur?
In cells that have chloroplasts
What are needed to perform photosynthesis?
Sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.
- What strikes a green part of the plant, such as a leaf?
Sunlight
- The leaf is green because of a green chemical called what? Where is this found?
Chlorophyll; in the chloroplasts
- Where are water and carbon dioxide combined to make food in the form of sugars?
Inside the chloroplasts
- Where do the sugars produced in the leaf during photosynthesis go?
They go into the leaf’s veins and from there to all parts of the plant.
- What is the produced as a waste product of photosynthesis?
Oxygen
Why are the leaves important for photosynthesis?
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Where do the leaves get water?
From the roots