Leaf Structure and Photosynthesis

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Leaf Structure and Photosynthesis

• Standard Grade Biology

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Photosynthesis
http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/photosynth
esis.html
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Photosynthesis

• Green plants (producers) can use light energy to
  make their own food
• This process is called photosynthesis
• Green plants are green because they contain a
  chemical called chlorophyll. This chemical is
  used to trap light energy.

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• Chlorophyll is contained in the chloroplasts of
  plant cells
• Light energy is used to change carbon dioxide and
  water into starch and oxygen
• The word equation for photosynthesis is
• carbon water starch oxygen
• dioxide

Light energy
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Structure of a leaf
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