Photosynthesis Key Words

1. Producing crops and livestock on large areas of land with little or no added fertiliser (9, 7)
4. Increased introduction of minerals, often to waterways, causing an increased growth of algae and further effects (14)
6. The process where different species or organisms that are found in a community change over time (10)
8. Groups of light sensitive pigments which harvest the energy from light (12)
9. A light sensitive pigment found at the centre of a photosystem in the thylakoid membrane of the chloroplast (11)
10. The enzyme ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase which combine carbon dioxide with RuBP (7)

1. An ecological unit that includes all the living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) features of the environment (9)
3. A group of organisms that are alike in biochemistry, physiology and appearance, and are capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring (7)
5. The process by which organic molecules are synthesised using the energy from light (14)
7. A coenzyme which is reduced to NADPH during the light dependent reaction and used in the light independent reaction (4)

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