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BIO BEYOND UNIT 6 ENERGY
CHALLENGE PHOTOSYNTH ESIS
EXAM
Question : What is meant by the term wavelength? Select
the best answer:
CORRECT ANSWER : Distance between two peaks
Question : Looking at the image to the right, which
categories of light exist other than visible light? Select all
that apply:
CORRECT ANSWER : Infrared
Radio Gamma rays X-rays
Question : Which particular photons do you think
contribute most to photosynthesis?
CORRECT ANSWER : blue photons
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Question : What do you think is happening to the green
light in the image?
CORRECT ANSWER : It gets reflected off of the leaf
and into the person's eyes
Question : Knowing this, what is the relationship between
the wavelength and energy of a photon? Select the best
answer below:
CORRECT ANSWER : Shorter wavelength has higher
energy
Question : Which particular photons might contribute
most to photosynthesis? Select all that apply:
CORRECT ANSWER : red photons
blue photons orange photons
Question : What do you notice that they all have in
common? Select the best answer:
CORRECT ANSWER : All of the molecules have rings
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Question : What do you think makes purple sulfur
bacteria appear to be purple or reddish like in the image?
Select the best answer:
CORRECT ANSW ER: A pigment other than
bacteriochlorophyll is reflecting purple or reddish and is absorbing the other colors we don't see
Question : From the image, where do you think
chlorophyll can be found in plants? Select the best
answer:
CORRECT ANSWER : Thylakoid membranes in
chloroplasts
Question : Which molecules are present, increasing,
decreasing, or staying constant in the graph to the right?
Choose an answer for each molecule:
Carbon dioxide (CO2) Oxygen (O2) Water (H2O)
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Nitrogen (N2) Glucose
CORRECT ANSWER : Decreasing
Increasing Decreasing Absent Increasing
Question : What if you took one pebble of granite from
Mount Everest? Do you think you would be able to notice an appreciable change in the size of Mount Everest?
CORRECT ANSWER : No noticeable change
Question : What happens to the energy provided by a
photon after it strikes a chlorophyll molecule in a plant?
Select all that apply:
CORRECT ANSWER : It gets transferred...
After reaching the reaction center...