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How leaves eat sunlight

Chapter 1

The leaf as a solar panel

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Chapter 2

The magic recipe of air and water

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Chapter 3

The ancient bacteria that changed the world

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Chapter 4

The global engine of life

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Master of How leaves eat sunlight

Ch 2 · The magic recipe of air and water
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artiteacher Baking the sugar called glucose

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artiteacher Splitting water with a solar hammer

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Sunlight Soup

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artiteacher Breathing through microscopic leaf mouths

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artiteacher The lucky waste product called oxygen

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artiteacher Electrolysis of Water

Breathe it in, breathe it in / Splitting water, yeah we breathe it in!

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Baking the sugar called glucose

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Fun Fact

Stomata breathing: A single oak leaf can have over one million microscopic mouth-like pores on its underside.

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Splitting water with a solar hammer

artiteacher Splitting water with a solar hammer

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Glossary
photosynthesis (noun)
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water. In 1779, Jan Ingenhousz discovered that plants need light to transform carbon dioxide and water into oxygen.

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Quiz

Who won a Nobel Prize in 1961 for mapping the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis?

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Gossip

Which ingredient in the photosynthesis recipe is the most magical?

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Quiz

What is the source of the oxygen gas that plants release into the atmosphere?

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Quiz

What are the microscopic pores on the underside of a leaf called that let carbon dioxide in?

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Quiz

Which cells control the opening and closing of the stomata pores on a leaf?

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Quiz

Why do plants open and close their stomata throughout the day?

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Quiz

What primary sugar do plants produce during photosynthesis to store chemical energy?

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Quiz

What is the name of the light-independent chemical cycle that bakes carbon dioxide into sugar?

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Quiz

Which chemical element is used by chloroplasts as a molecular 'hammer' to help split water molecules?

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