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Life Processes in Plants

Checkpoint: how a plant builds its own food

Five quick questions. Answer, read the reason, and retry as often as you like.

A green leaf sits in sunlight. It gets no water. What does it make?

What does sunlight give a leaf?

Which leaf part catches sunlight?

Iodine is added to a leaf that made starch. What do you see?

Why does a plant sit in the dark before the starch test?

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  1. 0 Start here
  2. 1 A plant makes its own food
  3. 2 What a leaf does with light
  4. 3 Where in a leaf it happens
  5. 4 Testing a leaf for starch
  6. 5 Checkpoint: how a plant builds its own food
  7. 6 What the roots take in
  8. 7 Water up, food around
  9. 8 Where the food ends up
  10. 9 A plant respires, day and night
  11. 10 Sunlight, water and growth
  12. 11 Does a leaf need carbon dioxide?
  13. 12 What a leaf gives out
  14. 13 Red leaves can make food too
  15. 14 The big picture
  16. 15 Track quiz

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