Photosynthesis and Respiration

Question 1

Photosynthesis

Answer 1

The process plants use to make their own “food” from the sun’s energy, carbon dioxide, and water.

Question 2

Producer

Answer 2

Producers are organisms that make their own food.

Question 3

Autotroph

Answer 3

An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.

Question 4

ATP

Answer 4

A molecule that carries energy within cells.

Question 5

Cellular Respiration

Answer 5

A set of metabolic reactions and processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert chemical energy from oxygen molecules.

Question 6

Chloroplast

Answer 6

A plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place.

Question 7

Glucose

Answer 7

A simple sugar which is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates.

Question 8

Heterotroph

Answer 8

An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

Question 9

Monosaccharide

Answer 9

The most basic form of carbohydrates.

Question 10

Polysaccharide

Answer 10

A carbohydrate whose molecules consist of a number of sugar molecules bonded together.

Question 11

Starch

Answer 11

A polymeric carbohydrate consisting of numerous glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds.