How do plant change sunlight into food?

Answer 1

Sunlight is the energy source that plants use in order to join together carbon dioxide molecules from the air and water molecules taken up by their roots. They manufacture sugar, which they can then join up in chains to make starch as a food store for later on that day, overnight or save up ready for growth next spring. Energy is released when the stored starch or sugar is respired, ie reacted with oxygen, and the carbon dioxide and water are released again.

Using sunlight energy to make food is called photosynthesis. It is important to realise that the food is made from carbon dioxide and water, and light is the energy required to make this happen. Light is not made INTO food: light is a form of energy and so is not made into stuff. The mass of the carbon dioxide plus the mass of water used will add up to the mass of sugar made. Photosynthesis releases oxygen into the air, which is very useful for us of course - without plants it would not have been possible for animal life to have evolved in the way it happen.

Answer 2

If the plant is a green plant then it has chlorophyll (which is what makes it green) which uses sunlight's energy to convert carbon dioxide into other organic chemicals, which the plant uses for food. In the process it gives off oxygen.

Answer 3

Plants convert sunlight into food through the process of photosynthesis. They use chlorophyll to absorb sunlight and capture carbon dioxide from the air. This energy is then used to convert water and carbon dioxide into glucose (sugar) and oxygen, which the plant uses for energy and growth.

Answer 4

The sunlight converts sunlight energy into chemical energy. Plant chloroplast convert the energy of sunlight into food for the plants.

Answer 5

Photosynthesis doesn't necessarily turn sunlight into food. Rather, it turns carbon dioxide and water into food, using sunlight as the energy to perform this process.

Answer 6

By in process of photosynthesis