1. Plants, animals, and all other organisms need energy from food to live and grow.

How do organisms get energy from food? Inside an organism's cells, food molecules are broken down
and rearranged through chemical reactions. The reactions release chemical energy that the cells can use
to power growth and other important cell processes. These processes allow the entire organism to live
and grow.

Select all the true statements.

a. Animals need food, but plants don’t.

b. Chemical energy can be used for cell growth.

c. Molecules from food can provide energy.

2. All organisms get chemical energy from food. Some organisms get food by eating other organisms.
Others, including most plants, make their own food through a process called photosynthesis. Plant cells
carry out photosynthesis to make food, which they use to get energy. Making this food does not create
energy. Instead, photosynthesis transforms energy from the Sun into a form that can be used directly to
power cell growth.

Complete the sentence to describe the energy transformation that happens during photosynthesis.

When plant cells make food, they transform ___ into ______.

a. light energy ………. chemical energy

b. chemical energy …………. light energy

3. The light energy captured by chlorophyll is used to power the series of chemical reactions that make
up photosynthesis. In these reactions, the atoms in water and carbon dioxide are rearranged to form
sugars and oxygen. A plant's cells use the sugars as food and release the oxygen into the environment.

Complete the sentence. Choose from the word below.

WATER CHLOROPHYLL OXYGEN CARBON DIOXIDE SUGARS

*The process of photosynthesis uses light energy to rearrange atoms in ____________ and _________to
make __________ and ____________

4. Plant cells can use the sugars from photosynthesis to get chemical energy. Cells get chemical energy
from food through a series of chemical reactions called cellular respiration. These chemical reactions
break down and rearrange food molecules to release chemical energy. Once chemical energy is
released, cells can use it directly for growth and other cell processes that plants need to live.

Complete the sentences. Choose from the word below.

* CHEMICAL ENERGY LIGHT ENERGY MAKING BREAKING DOWN

Photosynthesis transforms _____ into chemical energy by _______ sugars. Cellular respiration releases
the ____ from food by ______ sugars.

5. During photosynthesis and cellular respiration, plant cells carry out processes that involve both light
energy and chemical energy.

Decide whether each description applies to light energy or to chemical energy. Put a check

Description Light energy Chemical Energy

Used after cellular respiration
to directly power cell growth
Captured by chlorophyll
Used to rearrange the atoms in
carbon dioxide and water
during photosynthesis
Provided by food molecules

6. Order the steps to show how energy is transformed in plant cells.

1. Chemical energy is used to power processes such as cell growth.

2. Photosynthesis uses light energy to make sugars and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water.

3. Cellular respiration rearranges the atoms of sugars to release chemical energy.

4. Chlorophyll captures light energy.

a. 1-4-2-3

b. 4-2-3-1

c. 4-2-1-3

7. Select all the true statements about how plants use and change energy. Put a check inside the box of
those statements showing true statement about how plants use and change energy.

Plant cells use cellular respiration to get chemical energy from food.

Photosynthesis transforms light energy into chemical energy.

Chlorophyll captures light energy.

Photosynthesis creates energy from carbon dioxide and water.

1. A

2. A

3. WATER, CHLOROPHYLL, CARBON DIOXIDE, OXYGEN

4. LIGHT ENERGY, MAKING, CHEMICAL ENERGY, BREAKING DOWN

5. CHEMICAL, LIGHT, LIGHT, CHEMICAL

6. B

7. ALL CORRECT EXCEPT Photosynthesis creates energy from carbon dioxide and water.