1. What are the things that you cannot live without?

2. Photosynthesis

3. Do plants eat cheeseburgers?
Heterotroph
Autotroph

4. Do plants eat cheeseburgers?
Heterotroph
“other feeder”
Has to consume other organisms to get energy
Autotroph

5. Do plants eat cheeseburgers?
Heterotroph
“other feeder”
Has to consume other organisms to get energy
Autotroph
“self-feeder”
Has the ability to make its own fuel to get energy

7. Conservation of Energy
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be converted to a different form.
What does this mean for plants?

8. Conservation of Energy
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be converted to a different form.
What does this mean for plants?
Plants cannot just create their own energy from nothing

9. Plants get their energy from the Sun

10. Plants cannot just use light energy directly, they have to convert it to a usable form first!

11. PHOTOSYNTHESIS!

12. Photosynthesis Equation
Carbon Dioxide + Water => Sugar + Oxygen
CO2 + H2O => CH2O + O2

13. Photosynthesis Equation
Carbon Dioxide+Water=>Sugar+Oxygen
CO2 + H2O => CH2O + O2
Don’t be scared! We will be going over this in more detail later

15. This would be a slide with the plant leaf and chloroplast diagrams from their textbook

16. Plant Parts Summary
Stomata are pores in the leaf that regulate CO2 intake and O2 output
Mesophyll Cells are cells at center of leaf cell layers which contain chloroplasts
A Chloroplast is the organelle where photosynthesis takes place!
Thylakoid = chlorophyll is located in the thylakoid membrane
Granum (plural: grana) = stack of thylakoids
Stroma = area outside grana where complex sugars are created

17. Pigments
Chlorophyll is a pigment that absorbs sunlight and incorporates the energy into the process of photosynthesis
Chlorophyll is not the only pigment that exists in a leaf
What happens to the leaves in fall?