Destination: Amazon RainforestBrazil, South America

Topic: Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration

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Destination: BrazilTopic: Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration

• Brazil Flag and Fast Facts • Population

184,184,000• Capital

Brasília; 3,099,000• Area

8,547,403 square kilometers(3,300,169 square miles)

• LanguagePortuguese

• ReligionRoman Catholic

• Currencyreal

• Life Expectancy69

• GDP per CapitaU.S. $7,600

• Literacy Percent86

Photosynthesis

Photo: light Synthesis: to make

• Purpose:

Convert carbon dioxide and sunlight

into carbohydrates or sugar

Types of Organisms:

• Plants and some bacteria . They must have a cell part called a chloroplast.

Location in cell:

• chloroplast

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/forestbiology/photosynthesis.swf

Reactants-What is needed----Products-What is produced

1. CO2 carbon dioxide

2. H2O water

3. sunlight

1. C6H12O6 glucose

2. Oxygen O2

Conversion of energy

• Light energy is converted to chemical energy

Chemical equation

• 6CO2 + 6 H2O + solar energy C6H12O6 + 6O2

Carbon dioxide

waterglucose oxygen

oxygen carbon hydrogen

Let’s check out photosynthesis in action!

• http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/ca/Spotlight/Detail/Simulation_-_Water_Weed

Excessive amounts of carbon dioxide emitted in this room today!

Cellular Respiration

• Purpose: To break down the glucose to get ATP

What is ATP?

• Adenosine Triphosphate

Types of Organisms:

• ALL organisms go through cell respiration because all organisms need energy.

Location in cell:

• mitochondria

Reactants-What is needed----Products-What is produced

1. CO2 carbon dioxide

2. H2O water

3. Energy (ATP)

1. C6H12O6 glucose

2. Oxygen O2

Conversion of energy

• Chemical energy to chemical energy

(glucose) (ATP)

Chemical equation

C6H12O6 + 6O2 6CO2 + 6 H2O + ATP

glucoseoxygen Carbon dioxide water

equation of photosynthesis and cell respiration

• The equations are opposites of each other. The reactants of one are the products of another.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/photosynthesis.html#

Let’s practice your science skills!

• Students were studying the rate of photosynthesis in elodea plants. A data table of their results appears to the side.

• What is the ratio of the oxygen produced on day 1 compared to the total number of bubbles produced?

Day Bubbles of oxygen produced.

1 20

2 20

3 20

4 20

Total 801/4