1. Photosynthesis Notes

2. What is an photosynthesis?
Photosynthesis is the process that allows plants to use radiant energy from the sun and change it into chemical energy (food)

4. What is needed for photosynthesis to happen?
The essential ingredients are
Sunlight
Chloroplast
Water
Carbon Dioxide

5. How does photosynthesis happen?
#1. Water is taken in through the roots and gives it to the leaves through the xylem (tubes that carry water).

6. How does photosynthesis happen?
#2. Carbon dioxide animals breathe out goes from the air into the leaves and into the chloroplast.

7. How does photosynthesis happen?
#3. Sunlight is used to break down the water in the plant into oxygen, which is what we breathe, and into glucose (sugar).

9. Processing Questions: WRITE THE QUESTION.
Why is photosynthesis important to both humans and plants?
What is needed for photosynthesis to occur?
What does photosynthesis create?