Photosynthesis Trivia Game

• The molecule that acts like a charged battery for cells is called __________

• ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate)

• ADP is like a dead or uncharged battery. What gets “glued on” to recharge it?

• 1 P (phosphate)

• At the end of the CALVIN CYCLE, a sugar called _______ is sent out of the chloroplast for the plant to use.

• (the answer is a word, NOT a chemical formula)

• Glucose (Clearly looking for this name now)

• A stack of thylakoids is called __________

• grana

• The space inside a chloroplast that surrounds the grana is called the __________

• stroma

• The products of the LIGHT REACTION are ATP, NADPH, and ______________

• Oxygen OR O2

• Cheetahs can be classified as __________ because they have to eat some other organism in order to gain sugars needed for energy.

• Heterotroph OR consumer are correct

• If an plant has leaves that appear red on one side and green on the other side, which wavelengths (aka colors) of light are being reflected?

• Red and green

• Pine trees create their own food using a few simple materials in their environment. They are labeled ___________.

• Producers OR autotrophs

• The process that plants and algae in water use to make food with water, light, and carbon dioxide is called ______________

• photosynthesis

• Which organelle in a plant leaf cell is the location of photosynthesis?

• chloroplast

• Photosynthesis happens in _____ steps. (the answer is a number)

• 2

• The reactants of the LIGHT REACTION in photosynthesis are light and __________.

• Water OR H2O

• Write the full and complete chemical reaction for photosynthesis. NO PARTIAL CREDIT.

• The light reaction of photosynthesis takes place in a specific part of a chloroplast, which resembles a green coin, (or a green pancake) called ____________

• thylakoid

• The second step of photosynthesis, called _______________, takes place in the stroma of a chloroplast.

• Calvin cycle

• ______ from somewhere else must enter the Calvin cycle as one of the starting materials.

• Carbon dioxide OR CO2