7th grade Unit 2 Lesson 4 Capturing the sun's energy

Matter

• Anything that has energy

• anything that has mass and volume

• Anything that has volume and makes noise

• Anything with volume

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Producer

• Consumer that eats other organisms in order to live

• Someone who makes movies

• Actor that gets cast for a role

• an organism that captures energy and matter from its surroundings to produce sugars and other molecules

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Biofuel

• the material that forms the rigid walls and support for plant cells

  
  

• Something that starts a fire without any help

• An environment friendly option for gas powered vehicles

• a material that is made from biomass and releases energy when it is burned

  
  

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Biomass

• the material that forms the rigid walls and support for plant cells

  
  

• the combined mass of the bodies of organisms, which collectively represents stored energy

  
  

• an organism that goes through photosynthesis

• The newest car that is all electric.. kachow!

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Cellulose

• The stuff that comes in Amazon packages

• A material that is soft and doesn't support plant cell walls

• the material that forms the rigid walls and support for plant cells

  
  

• THis fuels the process of photosynthesis

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Chlorophyll

• the product of photosynthesis

• a green pigment that is important in photosynthesis

  
  

• This is why Kermit is green

• this is the wall of plant cells

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Chloroplasts

• This is used to keep pools clear and clean

• a cell structure that uses the sun’s energy to make sugar through the process of photosynthesis

• This is what mitochondria are made of

• This is a reactant in the process of photosynthesis

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Photosynthesis

• produces chlorophyll to fuel plant growth

• a process used by consumers to fuel their body

• the process of using energy from the sun and matter from the environment to produce sugars that store energy in chemical bonds

  
  

• produces oxygen but that's it

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