1.
What is the difference in how each of the organisms in the picture above obtain their energy?
2.
What names are applied to these two processes of obtaining energy?
3.
What is the acronym given to the molecule in the diagram above?
4.
Where does each letter in the acronym come from?
5.
What are the 3 parts that make up this molecule?
6.
This is an energy storage molecule. Where is the energy “stored” in this molecule?

The diagram below shows the process of ATP hydrolysis.
7.
What part of the ATP molecule is “lysed/split/broken-off” during this process?
8.
What is truthfully “broken” during this process?
9.
What are the 3 products of this chemical reaction?
10.
What is released during this process?
11.
What molecule aids this process?
12.
List a few events, at the cellular level, that would use this release of energy.
13.
Does ATP store a large amount of energy or a small amount compared to glucose?
Below is the equation for the chemical reaction known as “photosynthesis”.
14.
What does the word “photo-synthesis” mean?
15.
What are the reactants of this chemical reaction? Products?
16.
How many carbon dioxide molecules are needed to “fuel” this process?
17.
How many oxygen molecules does this process produce?
18.
Where does the energy come from that “powers” this process?

Below are the light absorption spectra of 3 different plant pigments.
19.
What is the role of pigments in photosynthesis?
20.
What are the 3 types of pigments illustrated in this spectrograph?
21.
Which 2 wavelengths (colors) of light does chlorophyll a absorb?
22.
Which 2 wavelengths does chlorophyll b absorb?
23.
Which wavelength do carotenoids absorb?
24.
Photosynthesis depends on this absorbance of light energy. To what subatomic particles is this energy transferred to in photosynthesis?
Below is a diagram of a chloroplast and the light absorption and reflection patterns of this organelle.
25.
From this diagram and the absorption spectrograph, why do plants appear green?

Below is a diagram illustrating the structure of a chloroplast.
26.
How many membranes does this organelle contain?
27.
In this diagram, there are “little disks”. What is the name given to the individual disks?
28.
What are the stacks of these disks called?
29.
What is the space between these stacks of disks called?
Below is an overview of photosynthesis.
30.
What are the 2 steps of photosynthesis?
31.
Where do the “Light Reactions” take place?
32.
From the chemical equation for photosynthesis, what are the reactants of the Light Reactions?
33.
What is the product of the Light Reaction.

One product of the Light Reactions, not part of the equation, is electron carriers known as NADPH.
Below is a diagram representing how NADPH gains electrons in the Light Reaction.
34.
The equation for this process is as follows: NADP + + H + + 2e  NADPH. What molecule, from the equation, do the 2 electrons that NADPH carries come from (hint: look at the bottom part of the diagram)?
35.
What originally excites these 2 electrons from the chlorophyll molecules?