Plants use photosynthesis to capture sunlight using chlorophyll in their leaves. The sunlight is used to combine water and carbon dioxide to produce glucose and oxygen. The glucose is used by the plant for energy and growth, while the oxygen is released from the leaves. The process involves sunlight being absorbed by chloroplasts in leaf cells, which then use the energy to produce sugar and oxygen through a two-step chemical reaction combining water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight.

1. Photosynthesis

3. Plants made of tiny cells

4. Movement Water & Minerals Move up to leaves Food Sent down from leaves

6. Roots Phloem – Nutrients in Xylem – Water out Like straw in center

7. Stem Phloem – Nutrients down Xylem – Water up Old part dies to support plant (bones)

8. Leaf

9. Photosynthesis The process of how a plant captures sunlight Two steps process 1. Capture sunlight Using special cell organelle called chloroplast Pigment = Chlorophyll (green) 45

10. Photosynthesis 2. Use captured sun energy to make food Sugar = Glucose 45

11. Stage 2 Sunlight is mixed with water and carbon dioxide Produces sugar and oxygen Use sugar to grow Release oxygen out bottom of leaf (stomata) When hot looses water too! 47

12. Chemical Equation 48