🌱 How do plants make food?

Plants make their own food using sunlight, water, and air! 🌞💧 It's like magic, but it's called photosynthesis. They use their green leaves to catch sunlight, just like a solar panel. Then, they mix sunlight with water from the ground and air from around them to make yummy food (sugar) for themselves!

Plants also give us fresh air to breathe while they make their food. Isn't that cool? 🌿

Plants are like tiny food factories! 🌿 They make their own food through a process called photosynthesis. Here's how it works:

• 🌞 Sunlight: Plants absorb light energy using a green pigment called chlorophyll in their leaves.
• 💧 Water: Roots suck up water from the soil and send it to the leaves.
• 💨 Carbon dioxide: Plants take in this gas from the air through tiny holes in their leaves.

Using these ingredients, plants produce glucose (sugar) for energy and release oxygen as a byproduct—which we breathe!

Plants are autotrophs, meaning they produce their own food through photosynthesis. This complex process happens in the chloroplasts of plant cells, where chlorophyll captures sunlight energy. Here's the science behind it:

1. 🌞 Light-dependent reactions: Sunlight splits water molecules (H₂O) into oxygen (O₂), which is released, and hydrogen ions.
2. 💨 Calvin Cycle: Carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air combines with hydrogen to form glucose (C₆H₁₂O₆), the plant's food.

The chemical equation is:
6CO₂ + 6H₂O + light → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂

Plants store glucose as starch or use it for growth. Without photosynthesis, life on Earth wouldn't exist!