Name: __________________________ Date: _____________ Block: _____

Photosynthesis Web-Quest
1. Go to http://sambal.co.uk/?page_id=218. Read the Photosynthesis article.
a. What is a producer?
b. Why are plants called producers?
c. What is the definition of photosynthesis?
d. Where does the carbon for photosynthesis come from?
e. During photosynthesis energy changes forms. Solar (light) energy is converted to what type of
energy during photosynthesis?
f. What do plants do with extra glucose?
g. What does photosynthesis require?
h. What does photosynthesis produce?
2. Go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/phot_flash.html
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Click on the Cycle

Click on Atomic Shuffle

a. What are the names of the holes in the leaves through which gases enter?
b. What is the equation for photosynthesis?
Click on Three Puzzlers
a. If all of its oxygen was removed, would a plant be able to survive? Explain your answer.
3. Go to the website http://highered.mcgraw- hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?
it=swf::535::535::/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120072/bio13.swf :Photosynthetic Electron Transport
and ATP Synthesis

a.

Which organelle is the site of photosynthesis?

b.

What are the stacks of membranes inside the chloroplast?

c.

What is the semiliquid substance inside the chloroplast?

d.

What happens to water when light strikes photosystem II? What is produced from the water?

e.

What molecule is produced by ATP synthase during photophosphorylation?

5. Go to the website
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/photosynthesis/photosynthes
is.html
-The page begins at the Overview. Read the first page and click continue.

a.

What is the role of the NADPH molecule in photosynthesis?

-Click on the Strategy/Players tab on the left.
a. What are the two main stages (reactions) of photosynthesis?
b. What three things are produced in the light reactions?
c. What three things are produced in the dark reactions?
d. Find the page with the mitochondria and chloroplast. Hover over the chloroplast. What are
stacks of thylakoids called?
-Click on light reactions.
a. Where do the light reactions happen?
b. What happens when light strikes the pigments?
-Click on dark reactions
a. Where do the dark reactions happen?
b. The dark reaction converts __________________ gas to __________________.
In your own words, describe IN DETAIL the process of photosynthesis at the molecular
level.