PHOTOSYNTHESIS CROSSWORD

1. When light contacts the thylakoid, electrons become _____________.
3. During the light reactions, plants produce ______________ gas.
5. One factor that can affect the rate of photosynthesis.
8. The dark reactions occur here.
9. and carotenoids).
12. The __________ cycle is a series of reactions used to create sugar.
14. A process in which plants make glucose using light energy, water, and carbon dioxide.
15. The decomposition of water into hydrogen ions and oxygen gas.
18. The part of the plant that contains chloroplasts.
19. Stacks of thylakoids.
20. The chloroplast is a _____________ membrane organelle.
21. ATP and NADPH are created during the _______ _________chain.

2. An atmospheric gas required to make sugar.
4. ATP and _____________ are energy storage molecules that provide the energy to make sugar.
6. During the ______ reaction, the Calvin Cycle processes glucose.
7. Organelle in which photosynthesis takes place.
10. During the ___________ reactions, sunlight is absorbed by plants and energy storage molecules are created.
11. Carbon dioxide is fixed into glucose during carbon _______________.
12. This pigment absorbs most of the sunlight and gives leaves their green color.
13. The primary sugar formed during photosynthesis.
16. Light reactions occur in the membranes of the _________________.
17. A special light-absorbing structure found in plants (examples include
22. A molecule created during the light reaction which stores energy.