JESRIEL KIM C.

GERAWON
BMSEE-IV
FLA 3 in P-MSCI 08

Photosynthesis Assessment Exam

Directions: Answer the questions to the best of your ability.

1. Where do living organisms get their energy? _____________________

2. What kinds of organisms make their own food?___________________________
3. What do cells use to move materials into and out of cells?___________________
4. What kind of energy do living cells need?________________________________
5. Where do cells get the raw materials and energy needed to perform the functions of the cell?
_______________________
6. Organisms can be grouped on how they obtain their food, basically on how they get their
nutrition, so what are organisms called that need to consume or eat another organism called?
_____________________________________________
7. What is a producer, and explain what it produces?_________________________
8. What is the name of the type of organism that breaks down dead organisms called?
______________________
9. Where does nearly all life get its energy from? ____________________________
10. What is the process called where plants make food/sugars from carbon dioxide and water and
sunlight?________________
11. What else besides glucose does photosynthesis produce?____________

Review the elements, using a period table to answer questions 12-14.

12. What is the chemical symbol for Carbon?___________
13. What is the chemical symbol for Hydrogen?_________
14. What is the chemical symbol for Oxygen?___________
15. Write the chemical formula for Carbon dioxide___________________________
16. Write the chemical formula for water.___________________________________
17. Write the chemical formula for glucose (sugar) ___________________________
18. Write the chemical formula for oxygen gas ______________________________
19. What type of energy is light energy converted into?________________________
20. Where is this type of energy stored? ____________________________________
21. What is the name of the organelle where photosynthesis occurs?______________
22. What is the name of the pigment that captures the light energy?_______________
23. Write the chemical equation below for photosynthesis:
__________ + __________ + light energy ___________ + _______
(FYI: The things on the left of the arrow are called reactants and the things to the right are called the products)
24. What does glucose used for?__________________________________________
25. If glucose is not used and it is stored what is the name of the substance it is often stored as
called?__________________
26. Where does photosynthesis in the plant usually occur at, name the structure of the plant where
chloroplasts are usually found? _____________________________
27. How do cells get energy from food?_______________________
28. What is ATP? ______________________________________________________
29. What process produces ATP?__________________________________________
30. Where does cellular respiration happen inside a prokaryotic cell?
________________________________
EXTRA CREDIT: How many protons, ______neutrons______ and electrons_____ does an atom of the
element of Carbon have? What is the molecular mass of carbon dioxide?
 ANSWER KEY

1.From either making or consuming food.

2.Producers
3.Cells use energy
4.Chemical energy
5.Food
6.Consumers
7.Producers make their own food
8.Decomposers
9.From the Sun
10.Photosynthesis
11.Oxygen
12.C
13.H
14.O
15.CO2
16.H2O
17.C6H12O6
18.O2
19.Chemical Energy
20.In glucose stores chemical energy for use, and if it is not used then it
converts to starch
21.Chloroplast
22.Chlorophyll
23.CO2 + H2O + Sunlight Energy C6H12O6 + O2 + ATP(Chemical Energy)
24.Glucose is a sugar used for food that is broken down into energy for cells to
do work
25.Starch/Glycogen
26.In the leaf primarily
27.In the mitochondria glucose is broken by cellular respiration
28.A high energy molecule Adenosine triphosphate
29.Cellular Respiration
30.In the cytoplasm and cell membrane
EXTRA CREDT: Carbon has 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons, and its
mass is 12 amu