Photosynthesis Vocab Quiz

Conversion of solar or light energy from the sun into chemical energy.

• Chlorophyll

• Heterotroph

• Photosynthesis

An organism that makes its own food (producer)

• Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)

• Autotroph

• H2O

An organism that cannot make its own food and gets food by consuming other living things.

• Jan Ingenhousz

• Chlorophyll

• Heterotroph

One of the principal chemical compounds that living things use to store and release energy

• Joseph Priestly

• Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)

• Jan van Helmont

Light-absorbing molecule

• H2O

• Pigment

• CO2

Green pigment in plants that absorbs light energy used to carry out photosynthesis

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• CO2

• Chlorophyll

The ability to do work or cause change

• Jan Ingenhousz

• Energy

• Melvin Calvin

A type of chemical potential energy stored in the cells and other basic structures of biological organisms

• Pigment

• Biochemical Energy

• Autotroph

Concluded that plants gain most of their mass from water

• Melvin Calvin

• Jan van Helmont

• Joseph Priestly

Discovered oxygen, and concluded that plants produce oxygen

• Melvin Calvin

• Joseph Priestly

• Jan van Helmont