Biology Unit 2 Vocab
Across
- 3. Plant cell organelles that convert light energy into relatively stable chemical energy via the photosynthetic process
- 5. The total amount of water on a planet
- 7. An organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
- 8. The part of the earth where living things exist
- 11. Organism that breaks down dead organic material
- 13. a molecule that is involved in transferring and providing cells with energy.
- 14. The scientific name for the solid parts of a planet
- 16. The substances which participate in a chemical reaction
- 17. any of a series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis requiring the presence of light and involving the reduction of carbon dioxide to form carbohydrate
- 21. A mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth
- 22. An allotropic nonmetallic element occurring in phosphates and living matter
- 23. Anything that takes up space and can be weighed
- 25. The process in which glucose is broken down to produce energy
- 26. Living, active, or occurring only in the presence of oxygen
- 27. relating to, involving, or requiring an absence of free oxygen
Down
- 1. A gas that makes up much of the air in Earth's atmosphere
- 2. Any item or service you sell to serve a customer's need or want
- 3. The process by which organisms use oxygen to break down food molecules to get chemical energy or cell functions
- 4. The movement of something from one place to another
- 6. Membrane-bound cell organelles
- 9. The process in which a substance breaks down into a simpler substance
- 10. The process of photosynthesis that converts energy from the sun into chemical energy
- 12. A naturally abundant, nonmetallic element that occurs in all organic compounds and can be found in all known forms of life
- 15. Organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon, dioxide, or other chemicals
- 18. The source of energy for use and storage at the cellular level
- 19. The natural compound present in green plants that gives them their color
- 20. A series of chemical reactions that allow cells to use energy from carbohydrates
- 24. A negatively changed subatomic particle that can be either bound to an atom or free