Photosynthesis

Question 1

Autotrophs

Answer 1

Self feeders, make their own foor from the enery of the sun.

Question 2

Hetrotrophs

Answer 2

Obtain their foor fromother organisms

Question 3

Mesophyll

Answer 3

The tissue in the interior of the leaf that contains chloroplasts

Question 4

Stomata

Answer 4

Miscroscopic pores that O2 and CO2 use to leave and enter the cell

Question 5

Summery equasion for photosynthesis

Answer 5

Sunlight + H2O + CO2 = Glucose and O2

Question 6

Two phases of photosynthesis

Answer 6

Light reastions: inthylakoid membrane of chloroplast

Calvin Cycle in the stroma of choloplast

Question 7

3 ways we see light

Answer 7

Absorbed

reflected: bounce off
transmitted: go through

Question 8

Photon

Answer 8

discrete particles of light

Question 9

What color light drives photosynthesis?

Answer 9

Violet-blue and red wave lengths

4-500 nm abd 6-700 nm

Question 10

What happens to green light

Answer 10

It is reflected and transmitted

5-600 nm

Question 11

Chlorophyll a

Answer 11

is the main pigment of photosynthesis

Question 12

Chlorophyll b

Answer 12

accessory pigment that brodens the spectrum used for photosynthesis

Question 13

Carotenoids

Answer 13

Accessory pigment that absorbs excessive light that would damage the chlorophyll

Question 14

When a pigment absorbs light…

Answer 14

it goes from a ground state to an excited state which is unstable