PHOTOSYNTHESIS

• What's the formula for photosynthesis? It's water + carbon dioxide + sunlight = glucose, a sugar (food). 
  

• Water is the important water part of photosynthesis.
  

• It's simple, plants take carbon dioxide out of the air during photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas in the air and helps to heat the planet.
  

• You can't have good nutrition without photosynthesis. Photosynthesis starts the food chain. It's as simple as that.
  

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Name 3 things that would happen if

plants didn't make food from

sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.

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How many planets do you know of that have green things in the ground? What are those green things and what do they do?

Okay, you know that the planet is Earth and the green things are plants. Do you know that plants photosynthesize and make food for every living thing on top of the planet? That means you, too.

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WATER

CLIMATE

NUTRITION

GOING GREEN

and PHOTOSYNTHESIS

WATER CYCLE

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

NUTRIENT CYCLE

ROCKS

GREENHOUSE EFFECT

NITROGEN CYCLE

PHOTOSYNTHESIS FOLLOWS NATURE'S RULES

Nature's Natives™ is a simplified representation of how nature works.

WHAT DOES GREEN MEAN?

EFFICIENCY, CONSERVATION & CONNECTIONS

WE GET TO...

TAKE A BREATH

EAT GOOD FOOD &

DRINK SOME WATER!

Efficiency

Plants use only what they need from nature (carbon dioxide, water and sunlight) to make the sugar glucose. The left over part is oxygen and that goes into the air.

Conservation

Plants hold onto its glucose energy until it is ready to be used.  Plants don't waste their energy.

Connections

Photosynthesis starts in plants (producers) and moves when the plant is eaten by animals (consumers).

FOLLOW NATURE'S NATIVES™

FOLLOWING NATURE'S RULES

PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND WATER

PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND CLIMATE

PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND NUTRITION

VOCABULARY

Chloroplast- A plastid (class of small organelles) that has chlorophyll. This is where photosynthesis takes place.

Climate- Normal weather conditions established over a long period of time.

Consumers- Animals that get their energy by eating organic matter in the food chain.

Decomposers- Organisms (bacteria and fungi) that feed on and break down dead plants and animals into inorganic materials.

Drought- Unusually little rainfall over a long period of time.

Energy- Something living things need in order to move, grow and breathe.

Food chain- The transfer of food energy from producers to consumers.

Food web- The transfer of energy through food chains in an ecosystem.

Greenhouse gas- A gas that absorbs infrared radiation.

Nutrition- Food that is needed for health and growth.

Photosynthesis- The process in which green plants use energy from sunlight to change carbon dioxide and water into sugars. Photo=light and synthesis=putting together.

Producers- Organisms that synthesizes organic compounds from inorganic substances via photosynthesis.