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What is energy stored in the particles that make up food, fuel, and other matter, which are released during a chemical reaction such as burning wood, or the reactions that occur in the cells of organisms?
chemical energy
What are the products of photosynthesis?
Glucose and oxygen
What is the simplest unit of a chemical compound that can exist; formed when two or more atoms join together chemically?
Molecule
Which would cause an increase in the rate of photosynthesis occurring in a plant; increasing the amount of light or increasing the amount of glucose?
Increasing the amount of light
What is a substance that takes part in and undergoes change during a reaction; product or reactant?
Reactant
Which form of energy is used to power photosynthesis; thermal, chemical, nuclear, radiant?
Radiant
What is the smallest particle of an element maintaining the chemical identity of that element?
Atom
The reactants of photosynthesis are sunlight, water, and---
Carbon dioxide
What is a chemical reaction during which plants convert radiant energy from the Sun to chemical energy; a reaction that converts carbon dioxide and water to sugar (glucose)?
Photosynthesis
What is a substance produced during a chemical reaction?
Product
The process of photosynthesis captures solar energy, converts it to a chemical energy, and stores it in the bonds of---
glucose
What is a simple sugar molecule with stored chemical energy used by plants as their energy source; one of the main products of the photosynthesis process?
Glucose
What type of energy is from the sun that reaches Earth as visible light, ultraviolet light, and infrared radiation (heat)?
Radiant energy
A plant underwater is producing bubbles. What is the identity of the gas in the bubbles?
Oxygen
What chemical allows plants to absorb sunlight to synthesize glucose; it is responsible for a plants green color?
Chlorophyll
Are plants autotrophs or heterotrophs?
Autotrophs
