Cell Processes and Energy Vocabulary

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with the help of chlorophyll, typically from carbon dioxide and water.

• Photosynthesis

• Cellular Respiration

• Mitochondria

• Glucose

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An organism that produces its own food from inorganic substances, such as carbon dioxide and water, usually using light or chemical energy.

• autotroph

• heterotroph

• chlorophyll

• reactants

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organism that cannot produce its own food and instead obtains its energy and nutrients by consuming other organisms.

• heterotroph

• autotroph

• products

• reactants

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The green pigment found in plants and algae that is essential for photosynthesis, as it absorbs light energy.

• Chlorophyll

• Chloroplast

• Heterotroph

• Mitochondria

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organelle found in plant cells and some algae that conducts photosynthesis.

• chloroplast

• chlorophyll

• products

• photosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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A simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms and a component of many carbohydrates.

• Glucose

• Mitochondria

• Cellular respiration

• Heterotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The process by which cells break down glucose and other molecules to release energy.

• Cellular respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Reactants

• Mitochondria

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The powerhouse of a cell, where cellular respiration takes place.

• Mitochondria

• Chloroplast

• Chlorophyll

• Products

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

The starting substances of a reaction (on the left of the arrow)

• Reactants

• Products

• Photosynthesis

• Autotroph

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The ending substances of a reaction (on the right of the arrow).

• Products

• Reactants

• Glucose

• Chlorophyll

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NGSS.MS-PS1-5