1. Photosynthesis

2. Caution: Emotional Damage about to occur!

3. Important Terms to Know…
I wonder if anyone remembers the two types of Autotrophs?
Producer – makes their own food from light energy and inorganic materials.
Consumer – gets their energy from autotrophs or other heterotrophs
AUTOTROPH
HETEROTROPH

4. Modes of Nutrition… Heterotrophs ATP
____________ must get their food by consuming autotrophs or other heterotrophs.
BOTH autotrophs and heterotrophs must break down food into a usable form of energy called ______
ATP

5. PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Nearly all of the energy that powers LIFE on Earth originally comes from the ________.
SUN

6. What IS Photosynthesis?
synthesize
The process to ______________(or MAKE)
____ (which is organic) from _____
and (both inorganic) using
energy
glucose
CO2
water
light

7. The Mighty Leaf where all this excitement occurs!!
Woo Hoo!!
The Mighty Leaf where all this excitement occurs!!
1.______________
Cuticle (there is a lower cuticle too!)
2._______________
Upper Epidermis
8._______________
Palisade Layer
3._____________
Spongy Layer
7._______________
Vascular Bundle
4._____________
Lower Epidermis
* The Vascular Bundle contains the Xylem and Phloem
5._______________
Guard Cell
6._____________
Stomate

8. Colors and Photosynthesis
The sun’s energy reaches the Earth as different wavelengths of visible and non-visible light. (we can only see a fraction of it!)
Humans see light as color,
Which is _________off of objects.
reflected
What color(s) does this plant absorb? What color(s) does it reflect?
This t-shirt absorbs all colors except red, which we view because it is reflected.

9. The Photosynthesis Equation..yippidy do da!
H2O + CO C6H O2
water + Carbon Dioxide glucose + oxygen
The equation is the opposite of ________________________!!
Light Energy
enzymes
Light Energy
enzymes
cellular respiration

10. Photosynthetic pigments…
___________ is the pigment in green plants which captures light energy.
It is found in _____________.
Chlorophyll
Chloroplasts

11. Factors Affecting the Rate of Photosythesis
1. Temperature
2. Amount of water
3. Intensity of sunlight