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Autotroph vs. Heterotroph
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Solar Panels
Answer:
bothparagraph
autotrophs
because
Please writeThey
a 4-5 are
sentence
that compares
this
HOUSE
to the making
PLANTS outside
they
are both
theirit.own energy.
a.
are both autotrophs
NOT panels
heterotrophs?
TheWhy
chlorophyll
and theand
solar
are
b. How is the chlorophyll in the chloroplasts similar to
similar
because
they
are both absorbing
the solar
panels on
the roof?
c.
What bad
thing
does absorbs
the plant absorb
from
the air?
sunlight.
The
plant
carbon
dioxide
d.
What
good
the air
does the plant
from
the
air.thing
Thefor
plant
produces
oxygen for
produce?
other
organisms
use.
Hint: Carbon
dioxide +to
water
Sugar + Oxygen
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Table of Contents
Date
8/22 or 8/23
8/22 or 8/23
8/24
8/24
8/25
8/29 or 8/30
8/31
8/31
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Title
Cell Theory
Organelles
Cell review
HW: Which organelle? paragraph
Cell review games
Photosynthesis
Autotroph vs. Heterotroph
Plant Cell vs. Animal Cell
“Green People of Solaron”
Page
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6
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 If you did NOT complete
your homework, you will
work on it now.
 If you did complete it,
you will get to read this
SUPER cool story!!!!
“Green People of Solaron”
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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Plant Cell vs. Animal Cell
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• Please tape this into your
notebook!!!
•Please color the chloroplasts
and the cell wall GREEN!!!
•Please color the “mighty”
mitochondria RED!!!
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1. Life can exist inside
the bubble
becauseof
there
is oxygen, carbon dioxide,
“Green
People
Solaron”
and
gases for
like on
Also, inside
there is the
a bright
sun. on
1.nitrogen,
Why is
itother
possible
lifeEarth.
to exist
bubble
2. They are green because they are participating in an important experiment.
the planet Solaron? (Paragraph 1 and 2)
3. The scientists are trying to find out if human skin cells can use the sunlight
2.toWhy
are the Starr twins green? (Paragraph 4)
make their own food from carbon dioxide and water, just like plants.
3.
What
are
the
scientists
trying
to
find
out?
(Paragraph
5)
4. One advantage would be that not as much food would need to be grown.
4.This
If human
cells
could
do photosynthesis,
what
would
would save
space
and resources.
Also, green people
would
makebe
oxygen
other
living things to
breathe.
the 2forbig
advantages?
(Paragraph
5)
5. 5.
Their
skin cells
are people,
now making
the green
pigment
chlorophyll.
Thecells
In the
green
which
pigment
are
their skin
chlorophyll
absorbs How
sunlight
to use
for help
photosynthesis.
now making?
does
this
them? (Paragraph 6)
6. 6.
They
live do
in athe
house
with twins
a clear roof
they can
absorb
the sunlight
Why
Starr
live so
inthat
a house
with
a clear
roof?
and do photosynthesis all the time.
(Paragraph
8) because their skin cells are always making glucose
7. They
are never hungry
7.(sugar).
Why are the Starr twins never hungry? (Paragraph 9)
the
twinsbecause
AUTOTRAPHS
or HETEROTROPHS?
8. 8.
TheAre
twins
areStarr
Autotrophs
their skin cells
do photosynthesis and
make
their
They do not have to eat to get their energy.
How
doown
youfood.
know?
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Notes: The 2 Stages of Photosynthesis
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1. The plant gets WATER from the soil. Water gets to the leaves from the
Stage
2:
Using
Energy
to
Make
Sugar
(Food)
roots. It also absorbs CARBON DIOXIDE from the air through holes in
Usethe
page
121 to help you answer the questions and draw a picture
leaves.
1. What raw materials do the leaf cells need? Where do these raw
2. The chloroplast uses the water and carbon dioxide to make sugar and
materials come from? How do they get to the leaf?
oxygen. It does chemical reactions to make this change.
2. What does the chloroplast do to the water and carbon dioxide? What
3. The energy to do these chemical reactions came from the light energy
products are made?
captured in stage 1.
3. Where did the energy come from to do this?
4. The sugar gets used as food for the plant cells to live. The extra sugar is
4. What does the plant cell do with the sugar it made? (read last
stored for later in the “body parts” of the plantfruit, roots, stems, etc.
paragraph of pg 122)
5. The leaf releases all the oxygen into Earth’s atmosphere.
5. What does the leaf do with the oxygen? (read last paragraph of pg 121)
Equation:
Carbon dioxide + Water
Sugar + Oxygen
Light Energy used to
(Raw Materials)
(Products)
do the change!!!!
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