STUDY GUIDE: PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND CELL RESPIRATION
1. Write out the chemical equation for photosynthesis: interpret the
equation in words.
2. Which are the reactants? The products? What is the role of energy?
3. Explain photosynthesis in terms that an 8-year old can understand.
4. Which processes make up photosynthesis?
 Light dependent reaction
 Light independent reactions (Calvin cycle)
5. What occurs in each process?
6. Where do the processes occur?
7. What is a chloroplast? Chlorophyll? Thylakoids? Stroma?
8. What is a pigment? What is reflection of light? Absorption of light?
9. Who were Jan van Helmont, Priestley, and Ingenhousz? What did each of
their experiments add to our understanding of photosynthesis?
10. Compare and contrast Autotrophs and a Heterotrophs
11. Which types of organisms use the process of photosynthesis?
12. Write out the chemical equation for cellular respiration: interpret the
equation in words.
13. Which are the reactants? The products? What is the role of energy?
14. Explain cellular respiration in terms that an 8-year old can understand.
15. Which processes make up cellular respiration?
 Glycolysis
 Krebs Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle)
 Electron transport chain
16. What occurs in each process?
17. Where in the cell does each process occur?
18. What is ADP and ATP? NAD+? NADH?
19. What occurs during fermentation?
20. What are the two types of fermentation? What occurs in each process?
 lactic acid fermentation
 alcoholic fermentation
21. Where does each type of fermentation occur?
22. Compare and contrast fermentation and cellular respiration.
23. Which types of organisms use the process of cellular respiration?
Fermentation?
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