Plants &
Photosynthesis
Elisabeth Rohman
You vs. A Plant
• What are some things we eat?
• What does a plant eat?
• Heterotroph
• Autotroph
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The Answer…Photosynthesis!
• Photosynthesis: A plants process of making it’s food from sunlight
Breaking Down the Word
• Photo = Light
• Synthesis = Putting Together
Recipe for Photosynthesis
Ingredients:
Water
Serving Size:
Oxygen
Light
Glucose which acts as the food
for a plant
Carbon Dioxide
Getting the Job Done…
• Roots
• Suck up water
• Small openings
covering the plant
• Act as mouths to take
in carbon dioxide
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It Takes a Whole Team
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• Leaves
• Made of little cells
that photosynthesize
• Chloroplasts
• Make the plant green
• What takes carbon
dioxide, water, light
and turns it into
sugar and oxygen
The Cycle of
Photosynthesis
We breathe
out Carbon
Dioxide
We breathe
in the
oxygen
Plants
breathe out
oxygen
Plants
breathe in
carbon
dioxide
Photosynthesis
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