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Cellular Respiration Introduction Worksheet

This document introduces cellular respiration through a worksheet with questions about photosynthesis and respiration. It defines energy and explains that organisms get chemical energy from food, distinguishing between autotrophs like plants that produce food and heterotrophs that consume food or other organisms. Energy is lost as heat and organisms need a constant supply. The worksheet contains multiple choice and free response questions about photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and how the two processes are related through the production and consumption of glucose and oxygen.

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Cellular Respiration Introduction Worksheet

This document introduces cellular respiration through a worksheet with questions about photosynthesis and respiration. It defines energy and explains that organisms get chemical energy from food, distinguishing between autotrophs like plants that produce food and heterotrophs that consume food or other organisms. Energy is lost as heat and organisms need a constant supply. The worksheet contains multiple choice and free response questions about photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and how the two processes are related through the production and consumption of glucose and oxygen.

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Chapter 6: Cellular Respiration Introduction


This worksheet is going to introduce you to the information in sections 6.1-6.4. This will basically be all the
instruction you will get on these sections. I will go over this worksheet with you upon our return, but please take
care when you answer these questions to really learn the material you are discussing. Good Luck!

Part I: Critical Reading. Read the passages and answer the questions that follow.
Introduction
All living things need energy, which is defined as the ability to do work. You can often see energy at work in living
things — a bird flies through the air, a firefly glows in the dark, a dog wags its tail. These are obvious ways that
living things use energy, but living things constantly use energy in less obvious ways as well.

Why Living Things Need Energy


Inside every cell of all living things, energy is needed to carry out life processes. Energy is required to break down
and build up molecules and to transport molecules across plasma membranes. All life’s work needs energy. A lot of
energy is also simply lost to the environment as heat. The story of life is a story of energy flow — its capture, its
change of form, its use for work, and its loss as heat. Energy, unlike matter, cannot be recycled, so organisms
require a constant input of energy. Life runs on chemical energy. Where do living organisms get this chemical
energy?

How Organisms Get Energy: Autotrophs and Heterotrophs


The chemical energy that organisms need comes from food. Food consists of organic molecules that store energy in
their chemical bonds. In terms of obtaining food for energy, there are two types of organisms: autotrophs and
heterotrophs.
Autotrophs are organisms that make their own food. Most autotrophs use the energy in sunlight to make food in a
process called photosynthesis. Only three types of organisms — plants, algae, and some bacteria — can make food
through photosynthesis. Autotrophs are also called producers. They produce food not only for themselves but for
all other living things as well (which are known as consumers). This is why autotrophs form the basis of food
chains.
Heterotrophs are living things that cannot make their own food. Instead, they get their food by consuming other
organisms, which is why they are also called consumers. They may consume autotrophs or other heterotrophs.
Heterotrophs include all animals and fungi and many single-celled organisms. What do you think would happen to
consumers if all producers were to vanish from Earth?

1. What is energy? Give an example of how it is used in an organism?

2. Distinguish between heterotrophs and autotrophs. Provide examples of each.

3. Why must organisms have a constant supply of energy?

4. Energy processing is not a perfect process. How is some of the energy lost?

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5. Why are autotrophs considered to be at the base of the food chain?

6. Where is the energy in Glucose specifically found? How do living creatures release this energy?

Part II: True or False. If the statement is FALSE, correct the statement.

_____1. The ultimate source of energy is the sun.


_____2. C6H12O6 + 6O2  6CO2 + 6H2O is the chemical reaction of Photosynthesis.
_____3. Glucose is a carbohydrate that stores chemical energy in a concentrated and stable form.
_____4. The chemical formula for photosynthesis and cellular respiration are opposites.
_____5. Whereas photosynthesis occurs in only some organisms, cellular respiration occurs in the cells of all living
things.
_____6. Like matter, energy is also recycled by all living things.
_____7. Heterotrophs cannot make their own food.
_____8. Because you are able to cook your own food in the oven, you are a producer.
_____9. As mushrooms are fungi, they can make their own food.
_____10. Autotrophs are producers.
_____11. Cellular Respiration and Respiration (breathing) are the same thing.

Part III: Multiple Choice


Use sections 6.1-6.4 in your book to answer the following questions.

1. Photosynthesis
(a) uses the energy in sunlight to make food.
(b) uses the glucose in sunlight to make food.
(c) uses the energy in sunlight to make ATP.
(d) breaks down glucose to form ATP.

2. Cellular Respiration is the process of


(a) breathing.
(b) breaking food into energy (ATP).
(c) creating glucose.
(d) All of the above.

3. Using the formula for cellular respiration, where does a living organism get the Oxygen that Cellular Respiration
needs?
(a) it’s a product of Cellular Respiration.
(b) it’s a reactant that comes from the organism’s surroundings.
(c) the cells produce it.
(d) organisms exhale it.

4. Which of the following statements is true about glucose and ATP? (1) Glucose is made during
photosynthesis. (2) The energy in sunlight is temporarily stored in glucose before it is transferred to
ATP. (3) ATP is the energy-carrying molecule that cells use for energy. (4) The processes that make
ATP and glucose also recycle oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere.
(a) statement 1 only
(b) statements 2 and 3 only
(c) statements 1, 2, and 3 only
(d) All 4 statements are correct.

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5. Respiration is the process of
(a) inhaling oxygen, circulating it to the body and exhaling Carbon Dioxide.
(b) breaking food into energy.
(c) using glucose and oxygen, in the presence of sunlight, to make ATP.
(d) inhaling carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.

6. How much energy is actually extracted and able to be used by the cell from a single Glucose molecule going
through Cellular Respiration?
(a) 100%.
(b) 10%
(c) 34%.
(d) 75%

7. A Calorie (like on food labels) is a measure of


(a) how much ‘energy’ the food has.
(b) how fattening the food is.
(c) how long it takes for the food to get broken down.
(d) how hot a food is.

8. ____ of the calories taken in by a living organism are used for daily bodily functions, while ____ of the calories
are used for voluntary activities, such as running or swimming.
(a) 15%....75%.
(b) 75%....25%
(c) 100%....0%
(d) 50%....50%

9. Scientifically, a kilocalorie is 1000 calories. However, the “Calories” listed on food labels are actually
(a) kilocalories.
(b) not at all related to kilocalories or science.
(c) represented by a “C”.
(d) a fish organ.

Part IV: Vocabulary


Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word.

1. Glucose and ________________ are products of Photosynthesis that will be used in Cellular Respiration.
2. ______________________, water and energy are products of Cellular Respiration.
3. _______________________ is the process in which energy from glucose is transferred to ATP.
4. Without Photosynthesis, there would be no ___________________________ in the air.
5. The chemical formula for Glucose is _____________________.
6. Photosynthesis occurs in the _______________________, and Cellular Respiration occurs in the
__________________________.
7. The products of photosynthesis are the ___________________________ of Cellular Respiration.
8. Respiration provides the _______________ required for Cellular Respiration.

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Part V: Free Response Questions
1. Explain how Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration require each other to run.

2. Explain the process of Respiration. What is your body taking in? How does it distribute it to your cells?

3. Define Aerobic. Why is Cellular Respiration considered an aerobic process? Where does your body get this
element?

4. Write AND explain the chemical equation for Cellular Respiration.

5. Let’s say you eat a hamburger, fries, and a soda for lunch, and finish it off with an ice cream sundae.
Assume that this meal contains 2200 calories. Calculate how many calories will be used for essential life
processes and how many will be left over.

a. What happens if the “left over” calories are not used? What will happen to them?

6. Every person’s body is different. How does ones metabolism determine the amount calories an individual
needs to take in on a daily basis?

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