Photosynthesis Vocabulary

The process through which plants use water, light, and carbon dioxide to create their food and release oxygen into the air.

• Photosynthesis

• Cellular Respiration

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Important byproduct of photosynthesis that animals and humans need to breathe

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

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This is an ingredient in photosynthesis and it is produced by humans and animals.

• Carbon Dioxide

• Oxygen

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Part of a plant where most photosynthesis occurs and produces food for the plant.

• Leaf

• Stem

• Xylem

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Energy from the sun that is a main ingredient in photosynthesis

• Sunlight

• Steam

• Glucose

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Light that comes from an outside source.

• Artificial Sunlight

• Natural Sunlight

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What does artificial mean?

• Fake

• Real

This is they type of sugar made during photosynthesis.

• Glucose

• Xylem

• Oxygen

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Structure in a leaf that absorbs sunlight and location of where photosynthesis takes place.

• Chloroplasts

• Chlorophyll

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These are found inside a chloroplast, they have green pigment and make it possible for plants to make food.

• Chlorophyll

• Chloroplasts

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