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Basics of Photosynthesis

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is using sunlight to make glucose?

a)

Cellular Respiration

b)

The Food Web

c)

Photosynthesis

d)

Calvin Cycle

2.

What are the two reactants of photosynthesis?

a)

carbon dioxide and water

b)

sugar and oxygen

c)

water and sugar

d)

carbon dioxide and oxygen

3.

What are the products of photosynthesis?

a)

carbon dioxide and water

b)

sugar and oxygen

c)

water and sugar

d)

carbon dioxide and oxygen

4.

Uses their own food by using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis

a)

heterotrophs

b)

cannibals

c)

vegans

d)

autotrophs

5.

What are the four levels of heterotrophs? (In order)

a)

primary, secondary, quaternary, tertiary

b)

primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary

c)

producers, primary, secondary, tertiary

d)

secondary, tertiary, quaternary, primary

6.

What are three reasons photosynthesis is important? (select all that apply)

a)

carbon dioxide reduction

b)

provides life to deep water creatures

c)

oxygen production

d)

beginning of food chain

7.

Which organisms capture the sun's energy for photosynthesis? (select all that apply)

a)

plants

b)

some bacteria

c)

humans

d)

eukaryotes

8.

Where does photosynthesis occur in plants/algae?

a)

cell membrane

b)

stem

c)

nucleus

d)

chloroplast

9.

Name the parts of the chloroplast:

a)

ATP, ADP+P, NADPH, NADP+

b)

nucleus, mitochondria, cell membrane, cytoplasm

c)

outer membrane, granum, inner membrane, stroma, thylakoids

d)

lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acid, protein

10.

Where is glucose created? (dark reaction also occurs here)

a)

granum

b)

thylakoid

c)

mitochondria

d)

stroma

11.

Where do light reactions occur?

a)

thylakoids

b)

stroma

c)

granum

d)

nucleus

12.

Where is the chloroplasts' green pigment, chlorophyll, present?

a)

granum

b)

thylakoids

c)

outer membrane

d)

inner membrane

13.

What are thylakoids stacks of?

a)

lipids

b)

granum

c)

carbohydrates

d)

stroma

14.

What does the chloroplast do?

a)

Performs cellular respiration

b)

Create nucleic acids

c)

Increases glucose levels

d)

Uses light energy to produce carbohydrates

15.

The rate of photosynthesis INCREASES as the:

a)

oxygen increases

b)

light intensity decreases

c)

glucose levels increase

d)

carbon dioxide levels increases

16.

What is an organic compound directly produced by photosynthesis?

a)

carbohydrate

b)

lipid

c)

nucleic acid

d)

protein

17.

If Sarah's shirt is blue, this means that:

a)

her shirt is reflecting all wavelengths of light within the blue spectrum

b)

her shirt is reflecting the sky

c)

there is no explanation

d)

her shirt is reflecting all wavelengths of light except blue

18.

Where do light reactions take place?

a)

stroma

b)

thylakoid membrane

c)

inner membrane

d)

calvin cycle

19.

Where do dark reactions take place?

a)

calvin cycle

b)

thylakoid membrane

c)

stroma

d)

inner membrane

20.

What is the purpose of light reactions?

a)

to make sunlight

b)

to make ATP and NADPH

c)

to produce glucose

d)

to produce CO2

21.

What is the purpose of dark reactions?

a)

produce glucose

b)

make ATP and NADPH

c)

create water

d)

produce CO2

22.

What are the reactants of light reactions? (select all that apply)

a)

sunlight

b)

water

c)

ADP

d)

NADP+

23.

What are the reactants of dark reactions? (select all that apply)

a)

NADPH

b)

CO2

c)

ATP

d)

ADP

24.

What are the products of light reactions?

a)

ATP and NADPH

b)

ADP+P and NADP+

c)

ADP and ATP

d)

water and glucose

25.

What are the products of dark reactions?

a)

CO2 and H20

b)

glucose and water

c)

NADP+, glucose, ADP+P

d)

ADP+P and ATP