wunder beta🌿 How Plants Make Food
Learn the sunny secret of how plants cook their own food!
What you’ll learn
- Explain what photosynthesis is, name its three ingredients, and describe the role of chlorophyll.Photosynthesis is how plants make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Roots gather water and leaves take in air and sunlight. The green pigment chlorophyll captures the Sun's energy, making the whole process possible.
- Describe how plants make glucose and oxygen and explain why photosynthesis matters for all life.Inside chloroplasts, captured sunlight changes water and carbon dioxide into glucose, the plant's food, and releases oxygen into the air. Photosynthesis starts almost every food chain and provides the oxygen that people and animals need to breathe.
Questions this course answers
What is photosynthesis?
Photosynthesis is the process plants use to make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
Which three ingredients do plants need for photosynthesis?
Plants need sunlight for energy, water from the soil, and carbon dioxide from the air.
What is the green coloring in leaves that catches sunlight?
Chlorophyll is the green pigment in leaves that captures the energy in sunlight.
What food does a plant make during photosynthesis?
Plants change water and carbon dioxide into glucose, a sugar they use as food.
What helpful gas do plants release into the air?
Plants release oxygen, the gas that people and animals need to breathe.
Why is photosynthesis important for animals?
Photosynthesis begins most food chains and produces the oxygen animals need to live.
Grounded in trusted sources
- National Geographic Education, "Photosynthesis", https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/photosynthesis/
- Britannica Kids, "Photosynthesis", https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/photosynthesis/276411
- Monash University, "The process of photosynthesis", https://www.monash.edu/student-academic-success/biology/photosynthesis/the-process-of-photosynthesis
- Ducksters, "Photosynthesis - Biology for Kids", https://www.ducksters.com/science/photosynthesis.php
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