BIOLOGY - photosynthesis
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What do animals get from eating food?
Energy
What three things are used for photosynthesis?
• Carbon dioxide • Water • Light
What two things are produced by using photosynthesis?
• Glucose - Oxygen
What is the formula for photosynthesis?
Carbon dioxide + Water (+Light energy) > glucose + oxygen
What happens to the oxygen after being produced?
It gets released into the air through the leaves
What happens to Glucose after being produced?
It gets turned into starch or store energy
Name a way the energy from glucose be released by?
The respiratory system
Name six things in a cell that you find in a plant’s leaf .
• Cell wall • Cell membrane • Cytoplasm • Nucleus • Vacuole • Chloroplast
Name the layers in a leaf
• Upper Layer • Palisade Layer • Spongy Layer • Lower Layer
How do gases pass in and out of the leaf ?
Through the stomata (small holes under the leaf)
What helps keep the large surface area of the leaf protected from water loss, disease and weather?
A waxy layer
The water absorbed by the root hair cells passes through the…?
The xylem tubes, and eventually reaches the leaves.