Photosynthesis Review

A series of chemical reactions that produces glucose for plants

Photosynthesis

The transport tubes that move water from the roots all the way to the leaves

Xylem

The main sugar produced in photosynthesis

Glucose

The gas taken in and used in photosynthesis

Carbon Dioxide

The gas produced through the reactions of photosynthesis

Oxygen

The parts of the plant that absorb the light

Pigments

“Mouths” or pores on the bottom of the leaves that allow carbon dioxide into the leaf

Stomata

The cell structure that makes plants “hard”

Cell Wall

The cell structure that carries out photosynthesis

Chloroplast

Is water used or produced in photosynthesis?

Used

Plants get their mass (which is mostly sugars) from what reactant of photosynthesis?

Carbon Dioxide Gas

How do plants use glucose?

For building material (cell wall) or energy

If a plant absorbs a color of light, is it using the light or not using the light?

Uses

If we see a plant as green, it is reflecting _______ light

Green

If a color of light is reflected, the plant will

Not use that color of light

A red plant (use your imagination) will reflect what color of light?

Red

When performing the leaf chromatography, we were looking at what?

The Pigments

If there is more light available, the rate of photosynthesis will

Increase

If the level of carbon dioxide decreases, the rate of photosynthesis will

Decrease