Energy - Intro to Photosynthesis vocab

Photosynthesis

The process in which green plants use the energy of sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen

Autotrophs/producers

Organisms that can make their own food and sustain themselves without eating other organisms

Photoautotrophs

Autotrophs that produce food using light energy

Mesophyll

The green tissue in the interior of the leaf

Stromata

Pores in the leaf that carbon dioxide enters and exits from

Stroma

The thick fluid inside a chloroplast

Thylakoids

Flattened disc-shaped sacs inside the chloroplast

Wavelength

The distance between the crests of two adjacent waves

Pigments

Light-absorbing molecules

Chlorophyll

The main pigment in chloroplasts

Photosynthesis equation (words)

Carbon dioxide + water (+ light) --> Glucose + oxygen

Photosynthesis equation (chemical)

6 CO2 + 6 H2O (+ light) --> C6H12O6 + 6 O2