pho-to-syn-the-sisHow green plants make their own food using sunlight.🔊 Tap to hear it is the process that plants use to con-vertTo change something into a different form.🔊 Tap to hear it light energy into chemical energy that they can store and use later.
It mostly happens in the chlo-ro-plastsTiny parts inside a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place.🔊 Tap to hear it, which contain a green pigment that captures sunlight.
Plants take in carbon dioxide and wa-terOne of the two raw ingredients plants need.🔊 Tap to hear it.
They release ox-y-genThe gas we breathe, given off as a by-product.🔊 Tap to hear it as a by-product.
The energy is stored as a-den-o-sine tri-phos-phateThe molecule (ATP) that cells use to store and carry energy.🔊 Tap to hear it.