Science
Across
- 7. - organism that is able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compounds; also called a producer
- 8. (ATP) - compound used by cells to store and release energy
- 10. - saclike photosynthetic membranes found in chloroplasts
- 12. - organism that obtains food by consuming other living things; also called a consumer
- 13. - light-absorbing molecules used by plants to gather the sun’s energy
- 14. - fluid portion of the chloroplast; outside of the thylakoids
Down
- 1. - process used by plants and other autotrophs to capture light energy and use it to power chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and energy-rich carbohydrates such as sugars and starches
- 2. - organelle found in cells of plants and some other organisms that captures the energy from sunlight and converts it into chemical energy
- 3. reactions - set of reactions in photosynthesis that use energy from light to produce ATP and NADPH
- 4. - principal pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms
- 5. - (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate) carrier molecule that transfers high-energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules
- 6. - cell organelle that converts the chemical energy stored in food into compounds that are more convenient for the cell to use
- 7. (ADP) - an important organic compound in metabolism and is essential to the flow of energy in living cells; formed when ATP ‘loses’ a phosphate group
- 9. - the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis in which energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high-energy compounds such as sugar
- 11. (grana) - interconnected, arranged stacks of thylakoids