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Biology Chapter 8 Photosynthesis Test
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Biology
10th Grade
05/20/2012

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autotrophs
Definition
organisms, such as plant, that make their own food
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what are the three parts of an ATP molecule
Definition
adenine, ribose, phosphate groups
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energy is released from ATP when
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a phosphate group is removed
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Jan van Helmont concluded that plants gain most of their mass from
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water
Term
Ingenhousz showed that plants produce oxygen when exposed to
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light
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a student is collecting the gas given off from a plant in bright sunlight at a temperature of 27 degrees celsius. The gas being collected is probably
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oxygen
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plants gather the sun's energy with light-absorbing molecules called
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pigments
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what regions of the visible light spectrum are absorbed by chlorophyll
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blue, red, and violet
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the stroma is the region outside the
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thylakoids
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where in the chloroplast is chlorophyll found
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in the thylakoid
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where do the light-dependent reactions take place
Definition
within the thylakoid membranes
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what step is the beginning of photosynthesis
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pigments in photosystem 2 absorb light
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what 3 things are inside the thylakoid membrane
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1. electron transport chain
2. photosystem 1
3. ATP synthase
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what is the pathway that represents the flow of electrons during photosynthesis
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1. h2o
2. nadph
3. calvin cycle
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the calvin cycle is another name for
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light-independent reactions
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the calvin cycle takes place in the
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stroma
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what is a product of the calvin cycle
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high-energy sugars
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if carbon dioxide is completely removed from a plant's environment, what would you expect to happen to the plant's production of high-energy sugars
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no sugars will be produced
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when chlorophyll is absorbed by light, where is the energy transferred
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its pigments
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what 2 things does photosynthesis convert water and carbon dioxide into using energy from sunlight
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oxygen and high-energy surgars
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what 4 things does photosynthesis require?
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1. water
2. light
3. carbon dioxide
4. oxygen
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what are thylakoids
Definition
photosynthetic membranes inside chloroplasts
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what are granum
Definition
stacks of thylakoid membranes singular: grana
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