Photosynthesis

Chapter 6 Academic BioChapter 4 Honors Bio

Objectives Plants have the ability to take energy from

light to form sugar molecules containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.

Explain how environmental factors such as (temp, water and light) affect photosynthesis as an energy storing process

In both plants and animals sugar is a source of energy

Dewey Questions Why do trees lose their leaves in the

winter?

Dewey Questions

How come some bushes in front of my house, don’t lose their leaves in the winter? (Christmas trees, too?)

Dewey Questions

Why do the leaves turn colors before they fall off? Where do those colors come from?

Dewey Questions

What will happen to us, if the sun goes out one day?