PHOTOSYNTHESIS

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 NEED OF FOOD
All living things need energy to stay alive.

The energy comes from the food they make or eat.

Animals and human eat other living things as food.

Plants make their own food.

PHOTOSYNTHESIS
 PHOTOSYNTESIS
Process of plants
make their food
To do photosynthesis, plants need:

● Sunlight
● Chlorophyll
● Carbon dioxide
● Water
Leaves is an important
part of plant to do
photosynthesis, because
it has:
• Chlorophyll
• Stomata

Photosynthesis occurs in
the leaves.
 CHLOROPHYLL
Chlorophyll is green pigment
inside choloroplast.

Chloroplast founds in the

leaves

During photosynthesis,
The chloropyll traps the
energy from sunlight to make
food.
Chlorophyll
 STOMATA
Stomata is a pore that controls
the rate of gas exchange.

Stomata found in the surface of

leaves, stems, and other
organs.

Stomata open and close to let

air goes in and out of the plant.
 PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Carbon
Water
Dioxide

Sunlight

Oxygen Sugar
 PROCESS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Light energy
from sunlight Oxygen release
trapped by from the leaves
chlorophyll to the air through
stomata
Carbon dioxide
enter leaves
from air through
stomata Sugar
transported to
all other part of
Water is absorbed
plant for food.
by roots and
Excess sugar
transported to
will be stored as
leaves
starch.
STARCH
 STARCH
Starch is an excess sugar from photosynthesis
process stored in the plants part.

The starch can be used as food when the plants

cannot make food, usually during night time or winter.

Starch can be stored in stem, leaves, seed, and roots

 STARCH IN STEM
Plants that have starch
in stem usually plants
that have modified
underground stem.

Example:
• Ginseng
Potato
Onion • Potato
• Onion

Ginseng • Turmeric
Turmeric
• Etc.
STARCH IN LEAVES
Plants that have starch
in leaves are usually
the leaves can be
eaten.

Example:

• Spinach
• Lettuce
• Cabbage
• Etc.
 STARCH IN ROOT
Carrot Plants that have
starch in root are
usually the root can
Sweet
be eaten.
Potato
Example:
• Sweet potato
• Yam

Yam • Carrot
• Etc.
 STARCH IN SEEDS
Almost every plant
have starch in their
Sunflower seed.
seeds
Pumpkin It is used when the
seeds seed grow.
Sesame Example:
seeds
• Sunflower seed
• Pumpkin seed
• Sesame seed
• Etc.