Biology WeCare SB 025

1. a. Label the structure of chloroplast

b. Complete the table below

Stages Location Product
Light dependent reaction
Light independent reaction

c. Fill in the blank.

Photosynthesis
Leaves help to make ___________ for a plant. They contain a green substance called
chlorophyll. The leaves take in a gas called ________ _________.
The roots take in ____________ and other substances from the ground. The ____________
changes the water and carbon dioxide into the food that the plant needs. This food is a kind of
sugar called ________. This whole process of making food is called
_____________________. While this is happening, the leaves give off a gas called _________

Words to choose from: oxygen, carbon dioxide, photosynthesis, water, food, chlorophyll,
glucose

d. Complete the chemical equation for photosynthesis

sunlight
+ +

e. Compare between cyclic and non-cyclic phosphorylation.

Cyclic Non-cyclic
Photosystem
Manner of e- movement
Final e- acceptor
Product
Photolysis of water

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2. Complete the crossword puzzle.

Across
2. The energy needed to drive photosynthesis (5)
6. The gas produced during photosynthesis (6)
8. This increases the rate of photosynthesis as it
rises, but if it gets too high it causes the rate to
drop
10. The gas used up in photosynthesis (6,7)

Down
1. The green pigment that absorbs light (11)
3. The chemical used to test for starch (6)
4. The carbohydrate produced by combining water with
carbon dioxide (7)
5. The liquid taken up in photosynthesis (5)
7. These can open and close to change the amount of
water loss
9. Means "making something new using light" (14)

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3. Match the the terminologies.

photorespiration Provides the high-energy
electrons for the reduction of
carbon dioxide to sugar in
Calvin cycle Calvin cycle

The second of two stages of light reaction

photosynthesis; a cyclic series
of chemical reactions that
occur in the stroma of a photosystem
chloroplast.
The initial incorporation of
carbon from CO2 into organic
NADPH
compound by autotrophic
organisms.
carbon fixation The stages of photosynthesis;
in which solar energy is
A light-harvesting unit of a absorbed and converted to
chloroplast’s thylakoid chemical energy in form of
membrane. ATP photophosphorylation
and NADPH.

A respiratory process in many the conversion of ADP to ATP

higher plants by which they using the energy of sunlight by
take up oxygen in the light and activation of PSII.energy in
give out some carbon dioxide form of ATP and NADPH.

6. Diagram below shows stages in Calvin cycle.

a. Identify P, Q, R, S and T
b. Name the enzyme A.
c. State precisely the location of
Calvin cycle.
d. The cycle involved the use of
ATP and NADPH. Where these
molecules derived from?

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