Question

Photosynthesis Worksheet

 1. Write the overall reaction for photosynthesis:

 2. What does photosynthesis require in addition to water and carbon dioxide?

 3. What is the principal pigment of plants?

 4. Circle the letter of the region(s) of the visible spectrum in which chlorophyll absorbs light best.

 a. blue region b. green region c. red region d. yellow region

 5. Chloroplasts contain saclike photosynthetic membranes called

 6. The fluid surrounding the thylakoid membranes in the chloroplasts is called the

 7. What are the two stages of photosynthesis called?

 8. Complete the illustration of the overview of photosynthesis by writing the products, reactants, the energy source that excites the electrons, and naming the two stages

9. How does NADP" become NADPH?

 10. Where do the light-dependent reactions take place?

 11. What happens to water in the light-dependent reactions?

 12. What are the products of the light-dependent reactions?

 13. The light energy from the sun is converted to what type of energy and stored where?

 14. How does ATP synthase produce ATP?

 15. Where does the Calvin cycle take place?

 16. What happens to CO2 in the Calvin cycle?

 17. Why are the reactions of the Calvin cycle also called the light-independent reactions?

 18. What enters the Calvin Cycle and where to these things come from?

 19. What are the products of the Calvin cycle?

 20. What are three uses for glucose in a plant (fates of glucose)?

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