i. Name the process shown in the picture. ii. Which type of plants use the above process for their nutrition?

Question

Observe the diagram and answer the following questions.

i. Name the process shown in the picture.

ii. Which type of plants use the above process for their nutrition?

iii. What is the pigment in the leaf that helps in the above process?

iv. Give the chemical equation of the above process?

v. What is the importance of this process to living things?

Answer 1

i. The process shown is photosynthesis.

ii. Autotrophic plants (green plants) use the above process for their nutrition.

iii. Chlorophyll

iv.

v. Photosynthesis helps the plants to prepare their own food and also store it in their plant bodies. Animals depend upon this stored food for their nutrition. During photosynthesis, oxygen is given out which is important for all living organisms for respiration.