Second Year Science

Photosynthesis
Can you remember how to label this?
 Characteristics of Living Things

1. Nutrition 2. Respiration 3. Excretion

4. Growth 5. Reproduction 6. Movement

7. Response
 What is Photosynthesis?
Photosynthsis: The way in which green
plants make food
• The sun = source of most energy on Earth

Sun

Used for
photosynthesis
Heat Light
energy energy
Chlorophyll: a green colour/pigment in
plants
PLANT CELL

Chloroplast: a plant structure containing

chlorophyll
 Converting the energy
Sun

Photosynthesis
Light Chemical
energy energy
(Food)
 Equation for photosynthesis
Carbon dioxide sunlight Glucose
+ +
Water chlorophyll
Oxygen
 Have you ever seen a fat plant?
• Plants store glucose as starch

• Starch: remember from last year

– carbohydrate
– Slow releasing energy
– Turns iodine blue/black
 To show that starch is made by a
plant in photosynthesis
Part 1: preparing the plant
1. Destarch a plant by putting
in the dark for 2 days
2. Cover some leaves with
tinfoil
3. The leaves not covered =
control
4. Place in strong light
overnight (at least 6 hrs)
Part 2: test leaves for starch
1. Boil leaves in water
for a few mins

2. Soak in hot alcohol for

10 mins

NO BUNSEN
BURNERS
3. Leaves in boiling 4. Test leaves with iodine
water for 30 secs

Observe colour change:

Starch present

Starch absent
To prove oxygen is produced from
photosynthesis
 Summary
Energy
Definition Chlorophyll Chloroplast
conversion

Photosynthesis
Word
How to show starch equation
is made by a plant Food
in photosynthesis storage
 Second Year Science

Plant Tropisms
Miss Rochford
 Characteristics of Living Things

1. Nutrition 2. Respiration 3. Excretion

4. Growth 5. Reproduction 6. Movement

7. Response
 What do does “tropism” mean?
Tropism: change in growth of a plant in
response to an outside stimulus
• Can you think of something that might
influence the growth of a plant?
 Phototropism
Phototropism: the change in growth of a
plant in response to light
To investigate phototropism
What do you think will happen?
 Geotropism
Geotropism: the
change in growth of a
plant in response to
gravity
To investigate geotropism
• Put pre-soaked
seeds in damp
tissue
• Point seeds in
different directions
• Leave to grow
• Observe what
happens
Possible result?