PHOTOSYNTHESIS Solar Energy to Chemical Energy EQ: Can I name the inputs and outputs of photosynthesis and identify where in the leaf photosynthesis occurs?

Producers Plants are called producers because they produce or make their own food from sunlight through the process of photosynthesis (“building from light”)

Process of photosynthesis sun Takes water and carbon dioxide + The energy of sunlight To produce Glucose (sugars) Sugars are then used for: Energy for life processes To build the structures in the plant + H2O CO2 sugars

Chemical Formula for Photosynthesis  glucose + oxygen carbon dioxide sun energy + water + 6CO2 6H2O C6H12O6 6O2 sun energy  + What are the reactants? What are the products?

Where does photosynthesis happen? What do plants need to grow? Fuels sunlight carbon dioxide water The Helpers enzymes The chloroplast: Make ATP! Make sugar! I can do it all… And no one even notices! sun CO2 ATP sugars enzymes H2O

Chloroplasts are only in plants animal cells plant cells

Chloroplasts Chloroplasts are in the palisade layer of the leaf (top of the leaf) Contain chlorophyll, which absorbs the sunlight’s energy Chlorophyll absorbs all colors of light except green, which it reflects sun CO2 Chloroplast make ENERGY & SUGAR

Use your manipulatives… Light NADP+ ADP + P Light- Dependent Reactions Calvin Cycle ATP NADPH O2

So what does a plant need? Bring In light CO2 H2O Let Out O2 Move Around sugars 6CO2 6H2O C6H12O6 6O2 light energy  +

The poetic perspective All of the solid material of every plant was built out of thin air All of the solid material of every animal was built from plant material sun air Then all the cats, dogs, mice, people & elephants… are really strands of air woven together by sunlight!