Name: ___________________________________ Date: _________________________ Period: __________
Directions: Write out the chemical reactions for the following cellular processes. They can all be found in
your textbook. Then complete the chart below.
1. Cellular Respiration:________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Photosynthesis:______________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Lactic Acid Fermentation: __________________________________________________________________________________
4. Alcohol fermentation: _______________________________________________________________________________________
Let’s compare reactions:
Cellular
Respiration
Photosynthesis
Lactic Acid
Fermentation
Alcohol
Fermentation
Where it occurs
Reactants
Products
Directions: Click on the video link under “an overview photosynthesis” found on my website and answer the
following questions:
1. About what percent of the food we eat every day is carbohydrates? __________________
2. What are the pores (openings) on the underside of a leaf called? _____________________
3. What do plants use these pores for?
4. On average how many chloroplast can be in a single plant? __________________________
5. How does the chloroplast use the high energy rays of the sun to get the process of photosynthesis
started?
6. When we eat cellulose from a plant what do we call it? ___________________________
7. What does the plant use cellulose for?
8. What happens to the starch that we eat from things like potatoes, corn and rice?
9. How are the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration related in terms of oxygen and
carbon dioxide?
Directions: Click on the video link under “a closer look at cellular respiration” found on my website and
answer the following questions:
Click on the tab (bottom) called “THE BIG PICTURE” to answer the following questions:
1. What is the “energy rich” molecule that is broken down in cellular respiration? _____________________
2. What is the “chief energy currency of the cell”? ________________________
3. What are the main “inputs” and “outputs” of cellular respiration?
a. Inputs: ____________________________ and _______________________________
b. Outputs: ________________________ and _________________________ and ________________________
4. The video compares cellular respiration to photosynthesis. What is the relationship between
these two processes?
5. How do photosynthesis and respiration differ in terms of energy?
6. What are the three steps of cellular respiration?
_____________________________
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Click on the second tab (bottom) called “GLYCOLYSIS” to answer the following questions:
1. What happens to the glucose molecule during glycolysis?
2. What are the two phases of glycolysis?
3. How is glucose similar to a cyclist at the top of a hill?
4. When ATP is added during glycolysis two phosphate molecules attach to the sugar. What does this
do to the sugar molecule?
5. How many ATP molecules are “invested” during the preparatory (uphill) phase? _____________
6. How many ATP molecules are produced during glycolysis? ______________
7. What is the “net” production of ATP when you take into account what was needed at the
beginning? __________________