Day 6 Vocabulary Assignment

3. the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
6. the reaction which occurs as the first phase of photosynthesis, in which energy in the form of light is absorbed and converted to chemical energy in the form of ATP.
8. bound compartments inside chloroplasts and cyanobacteria.
10. a simple sugar which is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates.
11. the supportive tissue of an epithelial organ, tumor, gonad, etc., consisting of connective tissues and blood vessels.
12. an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

1. a green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.
2. a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place.
4. a colorless, odorless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air.a colorless, odorless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air.
5. energy-carrying molecule found in the cells of all living things.
7. a process that plants and algae use to turn carbon dioxide from the air into sugar, the food autotrophs need to grow.
9. an organism that can make its own food