2. By Gia Thurton

3. How Do plants eat?? We all know that plants don’t just get up and make some food. But they are living things… so they have to eat somehow! Well plants eat by the process of…

4. PHOTOSYNTHESIS

6. Stage 1: Capturing the suns energy The Plant’s Chlorophyll captures the energy that the sun gives off This stage occurs mostly in the leaves The color of the leaves come from pigments. The main pigment in photosynthesis is the Cholorphyll, located in the chloroplast Vocabulary: Pigments- colored chemical compounds that absorb light Chlorophyll- The main pigment in chloroplasts

7. Stage 2: Using the energy The Plant uses the energy to make sugars. The plant does this by using water and carbon dioxide. The roots absorb the water and the water moves up to the plant’s leaves Carbon dioxide eneters the plant through the stomata and moves into the chloroplasts Water and carbondioxide a series of chemical reactions The sugar that is produced are used by the plant cells for energy

8. Stage 3: Carbon Dioxide is fixed and sugar is produced In this stage, chlorophyll in the plant's cells absorbs light waves that hit the green portions of the plant. The capturing of the light energy allows the chlorophyll to pull electrons from water. This creates extra oxygen from the water to be released as waste from the process. The electrons set off the generation of ATP to create energy for the cell.

9. Photosynthesis can be summed up by the photosynthesis equation The arrow is the connections between the raw material and the products

10. What did we learn??? How a plant eats Where the plants energy comes from What a pigment, chlorophyll and stomata is The 2 stages of photosnthesis And the photosynthesis equation

11. Works Sited Websites Getinthegarden.com Wikipedia.com