Chapter 8 & 9
Across
- 4. Plant's principal pigment
- 6. Compound that carries high energy electrons, traps energy from sunlight in chemical bonds
- 7. Pyruvic acid is broken down into carbon dioxide, releases energy
- 9. Fluid portion of chloroplasts
- 11. Process that releases energy from food in the presence of oxygen
- 14. Compound used by cells to store and release energy
- 15. Amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius
- 16. Organism that gets energy from eating other organisms
Down
- 1. Not oxygen dependent
- 2. Process where plants convert energy from sunlight to chemical energy bonds of carbohydrates
- 3. Means sugar breaking
- 5. Occur during light independent reactions, use ATP and NADPH to produce high-energy sugars
- 8. Organelle where photosynthesis takes place
- 10. Process that releases energy from food in the absence of oxygen
- 12. Requires oxygen
- 13. Saclike photosynthetic membranes found in chloroplasts
- 14. Organism that can make its own food