Across
- 3. Pancake-like structure where light reactions happen
- 4. Green pigment that absorbs sunlight
- 7. Organisms incapable of photosynthesis
- 8. Stage 2 of the Calvin Cycle
- 11. Tiny plant pores for gas exchange
- 14. Three-carbon sugar made in the Calvin cycle — halfway to glucose
- 15. Plants make oxygen and food using this process
- 17. Gas released when water is split — thanks, plants
- 18. Gas from the air that becomes sugar in the Calvin cycle
Down
- 1. Where photosynthesis occurs
- 2. Electron carrier made in light reactions and used in the Calvin cycle
- 5. Essential reactant in photosynthesis
- 6. Protein-pigment complex that acts like a light sponge
- 9. Enzyme that fixes carbon out of the air!
- 10. This part makes sugars
- 12. Energy molecule produced in the light reactions
- 13. Free energy source plants love (no subscription needed)
- 15. A substance that gives color, like green in leaves
- 16. Where the Calvin cycle takes place
