Photosynthesis- Chapter 9

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Across
  1. 4. Organism that obtains food by consuming other living things, also called consumers
  2. 5. Fluid portion of the chloroplast, outside of the thylakoids
  3. 6. Light-absorbing molecules used by plants to gather the sun's energy
  4. 8. Principal pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms
  5. 9. Saclike photosynthetic membranes found chloroplasts
  6. 11. organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compounds, also called a producer
  7. 13. Cluster of chlorophyll and proteins found in the thylakoids
  8. 14. Set of reactions in photosynthesis that use energy from light to produce ATP and NADPH
Down
  1. 1. A carrier molecule that transfers high energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules
  2. 2. organelle found in cells of plants and some other organisms that capture energy from sunlight and convert it to chemical energy
  3. 3. Series of electron carrier proteins that shuttle high-energy electrons during ATP-generating reactions
  4. 6. Process used by plants and other autotrophs to capture light energy and use it to power chemical reactions
  5. 7. Cycle Light-independent reactions of photosynthesis which energy from ATP and NADPH is used
  6. 10. compound used by cells to store and release energy
  7. 12. an enzyme for the synthesis of ATP