Green plants are categorized as autotrophs because they can produce their own food using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water through photosynthesis.
The process by which this occurs is called photosynthesis.
Read the following passage.
Some organisms, such as green plants, have special organelles in their cells called chloroplasts. Chloroplasts can use the energy from sunlight to "drive" a chemical reaction that uses carbon dioxide and water as reactants. The atoms in the carbon dioxide and water molecules are rearranged by the reaction. When the atoms are put back together, they form different molecules called glucose (a type of sugar) and oxygen gas. The glucose can be used as a food source and building block for the plant as well as for any animals who later eat the plant. In this way, chloroplasts allow green plants to take non-food molecules and rearrange their atoms to form food molecules.
3. Choose the term from each drop down box that correctly completes each sentence.
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Green plants are categorized as
because they
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The process by which this occurs is called
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