Photosynthesis Crossword

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  1. 3. These are the green dots we saw under the microscope in Elodea leaves. These green dots are the part of the cell where photosynthesis occurs.
  2. 8. Sugar is more ______ compared to CO2 and H2O.
  3. 10. These organisms eat plants to steal the glucose they made during photosynthesis. They cannot perform photosynthesis themselves.
  4. 13. This is the scientific name for the sugar that plants make with photosynthesis.
  5. 17. This is the green part of the chloroplast where the light-dependent part of photosynthesis occurs.
  6. 18. This is the liquid inside the chloroplast that surrounds the thylakoids where the dark reactions occur.
  7. 19. The plant needs this molecule to make glucose. The molecule is inhaled from the air through pores in the underside of the leaves called stomata.
  8. 20. This is the type of environment where plants have to undergo CAM photosynthesis because it is so dry. In such a dry and sunny environment, plants open their stomata at night for gas exchange and close them during the day.
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  1. 1. This is the right-hand side of a chemical reaction. It is what is made using the ingredients on the left-hand side. In photosynthesis, these are sugar (glucose) and oxygen.
  2. 2. These are the “ingredients” of a chemical equation and are usually on the left side of the equation. In photosynthesis, they are carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight.
  3. 4. This is what we need to drink and plants absorb through their roots and bring to their leaves. It is one of the ingredients (reactants) of photosynthesis.
  4. 5. These organisms use photosynthesis to make their own sugar from carbon dioxide (CO2).
  5. 6. This is the time when plants in the desert open their stomata to have gas exchange to avoid the heat and dryness of the day.
  6. 7. and Blue: These are the two colors that plants absorb and use for photosynthesis.
  7. 9. The pigment inside of the chloroplast that makes it look green because it is absorbing red and blue and spitting out green.
  8. 11. This is the product of photosynthesis that we need to breathe!
  9. 12. This is produced by the sun or by lamps and provides the energy required for plants to convert CO2 and H2O into sugar (glucose).
  10. 13. This color is not consumed by the plant during the process of photosynthesis. Instead, this color is spat out giving most plants their characteristic color.
  11. 14. These plants live in the desert and undergo a process called CAM photosynthesis meaning that their stomata close during the day and open at night to exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide.
  12. 15. These are pores on the underside of leaves. We saw them under the microscope on aloe vera leaves. They look like little doughnuts.
  13. 16. Something that gives plants their characteristic color. There are ones like anthocyanins that make blueberries blue, carotenoids that make carrots orange, and green ones that make leaves green.