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Autotroph: Organisms that make their own food.

Heterotrophs: Organisms that obtain food by consuming other living things.

ATP: Basic energy source used by all cells to store and release energy.

Photosynthesis: The process by which autotrophs use the energy of sunlight to produce high-energy carbohydrates that can be used as food.

Pigment: Light absorbing molecules in plants.

Chlorophyll: Principal pigment in plants and other photosynthetic organisms.

Thylakoid: Saclike photosynthetic membranes found in chloroplasts.

Stroma: Fluid portion of the chloroplast outside of the thylakoids.

Calvin Cycle: Light independent reactions of photosynthesis in which energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high-energy compounds such as sugar.

ADP: a nucleotide composed of adenosine and two linked phosphate groups converted to ATP for energy storage.

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-In the leaves of a plant is a substance called chlorophyll.

-Chlorophyll makes leaves green.

-It also traps the energy from the sun so the plant can use it.

-When plants take carbon dioxide from the air, they release oxygen.

-Animals use this oxygen to grow.

-We release carbon dioxide, which the plants use.

-Plants also need minerals from the soil to grow. -Nitrogen helps them grow and make leaves.

-Plants need large amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The soil doesn’t always have enough of these nutrients. Gardeners use fertilizer to give plants more nutrients.

-Fertilizers are sort of like vitamins for plants.

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Photosynthesis | The Dr. Binocs Show | Learn Videos For Kids

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1. Energy is released from ATP when..?
- Energy is released from ATP when a process called Hydrolysis takes place, this occurs when one phosphate group is removed by breaking a phosphoanhydride bond.

2. Describe in general what happens during the process of photosynthesis?
- During photosynthesis, a plant takes in oxygen, sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide and produces oxygen and sugar molecules/ glucose.

3. Include the equation for photosynthesis. Both the generic word equation and the chemical equation.
- six carbon dioxide molecules and six water molecules, are converted by light energy captured by chlorophyll, which is implied by the arrow, into a sugar molecule and six oxygen molecules, the products
-6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2

4.As the rate of photosynthesis goes up, what would happen to the number of products of photosynthesis?
- When you increase the level of light, plants will photosynthesize more. ... With too little light, photosynthesis cannot occur either and the plant suffers without the production of sugars. There are many complicating interactions between plants and light.

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Photosynthesis is important because it sustains life on Earth. During photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide, or CO2, and water, H2O. Then the water turns into oxygen and the carbon dioxide into glucose. This releases oxygen into the atmosphere and providing energy for food chains and cleaning our air.