Unit 5 - Part 1 – Photosynthesis Vocabulary Flash Cards
Autotroph
Auto = “Self” troph= “Feeders”
PRODUCERS
Living things that make their own food
Examples: Plants, blue-green algae
Heterotroph
Hetero = “Different” troph = “Feeders”
CONSUMERS
Must eat food
Examples: Humans, birds, fungi
Adenosine Triphosphate (3 P’s)
Carries energy in its chemical bonds
When bond is broken between 2nd and 3rd
Phosphate group, energy is released
ATP
Photo= Light Synthesis= to make
Using light to make glucose (food)
Photosynthesis
C6H12O6
CO2 + H2O → C6H12O6 + O2
Pigment
Protein that gives color
Absorbs light
Chlorophyll
Thylakoid
Membrane
Green pigment in plants that
absorbs high energy light
Membrane where the LIGHT DEPENDENT
REACTION of photosynthesis takes place
Stroma
Space where CALVIN CYCLE
(Light Independent Reaction) takes place
and makes glucose (sugar)
“Stroma is the space
where the cycle takes place”
Another ENERGY carrier for
photosynthesis
Sun energy excites Hydrogen
electrons
NADPH
Light
Dependent
Reactions
Sunlight → Charges Battery
Sun + ADP + P → ATP
Sun + NADP + H⁺ → NADPH
Takes place in the Thylakoids
Uses charged “batteries” to fuel the
Calvin cycle to make glucose (sugar)
Does NOT need sunlight
Light Independent Reaction
Calvin Cycle
Cycles 6 times to make glucose
6 CO2 are needed to make one C6H12O6