Unit 2
Energy & Matter
Interactions
Photosynthesis
Process in which plants
make their own food.
Producers
Organisms that make their
own food.
Glucose
Food produced by plants.
Also called sugar.
Radiant Energy
(light energy from the sun)
Light Energy
It is radiant energy.
Chemical Energy
Energy that is stored in glucose (sugar).
Chlorophyll
Pigment that makes leaves green
Chloroplast
(a small green body in a plant cell)
Stomata
Pores on the
leaf.
-Lets carbon
dioxide enter the
leaf.
- Lets oxygen &
water vapor to
leave the leaf.
Transpiration
Evaporation of water vapor
from the stomata of the leaves in a plant.
Oxygen
Gas released by plants
Carbon dioxide
Gas taken in and used by plants to make
food