Science crossword vocabulary
Across
- 2. An organelle in eukaryotic cells that is the site of cellular respiration and generates most of the cell’s ATP
- 4. Conversion of carbohydrates into alcohol
- 6. Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms
- 9. The breakdown of glucose through a series of biochemical reactions produces two molecules each of ATP, pyruvate, and NADH
- 10. A carbohydrate; produced by photosynthesis; primary source of energy for some plant and animal cells
- 12. A long-chain carbohydrate formed from glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds
- 13. The process that occurs when the chemical energy of "food" molecules, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, is released and partially captured in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
- 14. The amount of energy that is stored in an object; energy that an object has because of its position relative to other objects
- 15. The form of in cell respiration that requires free oxygen
- 17. An organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food
- 18. the process in which plants and some other organisms use the energy in sunlight to make food
Down
- 1. The form of cell respiration that can take place in the absence of free oxygen
- 3. A green pigment that traps energy from the sun
- 5. An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals
- 7. The energy in an object due to its motion
- 8. Energy that does not need matter to travel; light
- 11. An organelle in a plant cell that turns energy from the sun into chemical energy for the plant to use
- 16. The energy that is stored in the bonds between atoms