Unit 4 Vocabulary

Growing plants in water without soil

• hydroponic

• aeroponic

• terrestrial

• aquaponic

When plants take up liquid water from the soil and release water vapor into the air from their leaves.

• evaporation

• transpiration

• condensation

• photosynthesis

A chemical reaction in which the chemical energy in food is changed into energy that can be used by the body’s cells.

• cellular respiration

• photosynthesis

• fermentation

• metabolism

The process by which plants use solar energy, carbon dioxide, and water to make their own food (glucose) and oxygen.

• photosynthesis

• respiration

• transpiration

• fermentation

Small green structures inside plant cells where photosynthesis occurs.

• chloroplasts

• mitochondria

• ribosomes

• nucleus

Tiny openings in leaves that let in carbon dioxide.

• stomata

• chloroplasts

• xylem

• phloem

Specialized structures inside the cells of both plants and animals where cellular respiration takes place.

• chloroplasts

• ribosomes

• mitochondria

• endoplasmic reticulum