A molecule that carries energy that cells can use. Adenosine triphosphate. It has high energy.

• ADP

• ATP

• Chemosynthesis

• NADPH

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-7

A process that is part of the light-independent reaction. It uses CO2 and energy to make sugar.

• photosynthesis

• Light-dependent reaction

• Calvin Cycle

• electron transport chain

A molecule that does NOT carry energy that cells can use. Adenosine diphosphate. It has low energy.

• ADP

• ATP

• chemosynthesis

• thylakoids

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-7

A process by which some organisms use chemical energy to make their food.

• chorophyll

• photosynthesis

• chemosynthesis

• electron transport chain

A process by which organisms use light to make their food, storing the light as chemical energy in the form of sugar. 6CO2 + 6H2O + energyC6H12O6 + 6O

• cholorophyll

• electron transport chain

• chemosynthesis

• photosynthesis

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-5

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

A green molecule in chloroplasts that absorbs some energy in visible light. This molecule has two forms, a and b, which absorb blue and red light from the visible light.

• ATP synthase

• chlorphyll

• stroma

• thylakoid

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-5

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

Pancake shaped compartments filled with chlorophyll, that form stacks called grana inside the chloroplast.

• chloroplast

• stroma

• grana

• thylakoids

Syrup-like fluid that surrounds the grana inside the chloroplast.

• chlorophyll

• stroma

• grana

• thylakoid

A reaction that requires light, occurs in the thylakoids , and breaks down water to produce oxygen.

• light-independent reactions

• chemosynthesis

• light-dependent reactions

• photosynthesis

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-5

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

An enzyme that has a channel through which the H+ flows back out of the thylakoids.

• ATP synthase

• ADP catalazye

• thylakoidase

• photosystems