Photosynthesis

2. This captures light energy and uses it to power the second stage of photosynthesis.
6. Small openings on the underside of leaves that take in carbon dioxide.
8. Sugars are a type of these.
11. When you eat food from a plant, your are eating the plants______.
12. The sugar produced during photosynthesis is used for this in the plant.
13. Nearly all living things obtain energy either directly or indirectly from this.
14. An organism that can make its own food.
15. Colored chemical compounds that absorb light.

1. The process by which a cell captures energy in sunlight and uses it to make food.
3. An organism that cannot make its own food.
4. This is necessary for the chemical reaction of photosynthesis to occur.
5. The term to refer to the arrow in a chemical equations
6. In the second stage of photosynthesis, the cell captures energy to produce these.
7. This is what plants convert to into oxygen and sugar.
9. Almost all of this on Earth was produced by living things.
10. In plants these absorb water from the soil.