Energy For Life

Section Three Chapter 3

Energy in Organisms
Food stores chemical energy
Chemical reactions take place to release energy

is the sum of all these reactions

What is needed for these reactions? Enzymes!
Enzymes can break things apart or join things together
Enzymes cause a change but stay intact to do it all over
again!

Producers undergo this process which is a chemical

reaction = light energy is converted to chemical energy
(sugar)
Plants are producers
What is needed? Light energy, water, CO2 (carbon
dioxide), nutrients
What is produced? Chlorophyll, sugar and O2 (oxygen)

Stored Carbohydrates
Plants make more sugar (carbohydrates) than they
need for survival

Excess is stored as starches for growth maintenance

and reproduction

Living organisms besides plants, consumers who eat

producers or other food sources.
Movement uses energy
Thermal energy is released or chemical energy is used up
by cells
What is needed to break down molecules in food? Oxygen,
food, enzymes
What is a by product of cellular respiration?
Carbon dioxide

Oh no, Im out of Oxygen!

When cells dont have enough O2 for respiration they
use undergo fermentation which releases lactic acid
Lactic acid will make your muscles feel sore and stiff.
Fermentation in cheese, milk and yogurt happen
because of microscopic organisms (bacteria) that
break down sugar in milk to release energy.