Photosynthesis
Across
- 2. The green pigment in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria that is essential for photosynthesis
- 4. A eukaryotic cell enclosed by a cell wall, containing a membrane-bound nucleus and other cell organelles
- 5. Substance composed of the chemical elements hydrogen and oxygen and existing in gaseous, liquid, and solid states.
- 6. a colourless, odourless, tasteless gas essential to living organisms
- 7. A plant having main pigment chlorophyll in it with which it is capable to perform the main function photosynthesis to prepare its own food
- 10. The Law of Conservation of Mass means that in an isolated system matter cannot be ___________.
- 12. A simple sugar which is an important energy source in living organisms
- 13. A metabolic process wherein, the living cells of an organism obtains energy by taking in oxygen and liberating carbon dioxide
- 16. A vascular tissue that transports water throughout a plant's body
- 18. Specialized plant cells in the epidermis of leaves, stems and other organs that are used to control gas exchange
- 19. The microscopic openings or pores in the epidermis of leaves and young stems
- 20. The segment of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can view
Down
- 1. The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
- 3. A colorless and non-flammable gas made up of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms
- 8. The vascular tissue in charge of transport and distribution of the organic nutrients
- 9. Plant cell organelles that convert light energy into relatively stable chemical energy via the photosynthetic process
- 11. A substance that is formed as the result of a chemical reaction.
- 14. What leaf structure transports food from the leaves to the rest of the plant?
- 15. A substance that takes part in and undergoes change during a reaction.
- 17. The major source of energy for organisms and the ecosystems of which they are a part.