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Photosynthesis Poster Project (Due Friday 1-13)

Directions:Using your notes and textbook, create a poster depicting the details of photosynthesis. Use the directions below:

Poster details: front and back

1)The title of the front side is “Photosynthesis”

2)The title of the back side is “Reaction Flow Charts”

3)On the front side, draw a picture of a plant that takes up approximately 1/2 of the paper.

  1. Make sure to draw roots growing in the soil, one of the leaves of the plant bent so that we can see the bottom of the leaf, and the sun.

4)Plants are autotrophs. Include this definition on the front side of your poster.

Light Required Reactions (FRONT SIDE):

On the front side of your paper that is labeled“Photosynthesis”:

  1. Draw and label a picture of stomata on the bottom of your bent leaf. (p.597, also see Stomata Movie clip on class webpage)

(It should be clearly obvious that the stomata is on the bottom of the leaf)

  1. On the top of one of your leaves, draw and label a chloroplast. Color it a bold green. (p.208)
  2. Draw and label xylem (pg.581, 600) Xylem is likea straw; it moves nutrients through the plant. Color it blue with arrows, showing which way nutrients move within the plant. (Xylem should be drawn in the leaves, root, AND stem)
  3. Draw and label Phloem (pg.87). Phloem is likea straw, it moves nutrients through the plant. Color it red with arrows, showing which way nutrients move within the plant.
  4. Next to the label for phloem, write the function of phloem (p. 581)
  5. Next to the label for xylem, write the function of xylem. (p.581)
  6. Next to the label for stomata, write the function of stomata (p.597)
  7. Next to the label for chloroplast, write the function of chloroplasts (p.180)

Create a Key to Label Parts on the front side of your poster.

5)Also on the front side of the poster, create a box. Label it “KEY.” Include the following items:

  1. Brown Arrow –Nutrients from Soil
  2. Striped Green Arrow – Sugar made by Chloroplasts
  3. Yellow Arrow – Sun’s Energy
  4. Grey Arrow – Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
  5. White Arrow – Oxygen
  6. White Arrow with Blue Dots – Water Vapor (H2O)

6)Next, on the front side of your paper (“Photosynthesis”) draw the appropriate arrow from your key showing the direction of movement …

  1. Arrow showing what the stomata absorbs
  2. Arrow showing what the Chlorophyll absorbs
  3. Arrow showing what the Xylem Transports

7)Color in the rest of your plant, soil, sun, etc. to give it a neat appearance.

Reaction Flow Charts (BACK SIDE of your poster)

8)Draw a picture of a chloroplast showing the grana and the stroma (p.208,209). This picture should take up approximately 1/4 of the paper. Color the picture neatly.

9)Somewhere on the back of your poster, include the complete Photosynthesis Formula. Make sure that you have three inputs and two outputs.

10) You will draw two flow charts. The first flow chart showsReactions that require light. This flow chart should take up about 1-4 of your paper.

a. On your poster, mark and label where these light-dependent reactions take place in the chloroplast that you drew.

b. Draw a picture of the thylakoid membrane, showing Photosystem 1, Photosystem 2, and the ATP Synthase imbedded in the membrane.

c. Show light energy being absorbed by the photosystems, and show what reactions are catalyzed by that energy.

d. Show the flow of electrons from where they are split from water to where they are picked up to form NADPH.

e. Show how ATP is synthesized by the ATP Synthase.

11) Draw the second flow chart: Reactions that do not require light. This flow chart should take up about ¼ of your paper.

a. On your poster, mark and label where these light-independent reactions take place in the chloroplast that you drew.

b. Draw a flowchart of the Calvin Cycle, showing the following:

i. The number of carbon dioxide molecules that enter the cycle each round

ii. How the carbons are re-arranged in each step of the cycle

iii. How many ATP and NADPH molecules are used in each step of the cycle

iv. How many glucose molecules are produced in each round of the cycle

12) Also on the back side of your poster, summarize 3 factors that affect the rate of photosynthesis (p.214)