Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Diagram Quiz

Eight parts to find in one plant cell: two organelles, two processes and what moves between them.

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Each numbered ring is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a part is answered.

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The organelles and processes 4

  1. Chloroplast Where photosynthesis happens. Plant cells and algae have chloroplasts.
  2. Mitochondrion Where cellular respiration is finished and most ATP is made. Plant and animal cells both have them.
  3. Photosynthesis It uses light energy, carbon dioxide and water. It makes glucose and gives off oxygen.
  4. Cellular respiration It uses glucose and oxygen. It makes ATP and gives off carbon dioxide and water.

What goes in and comes out 4

  1. Light energy The energy that drives photosynthesis. It ends up stored in glucose.
  2. Glucose and oxygen The products of photosynthesis. Cellular respiration uses both.
  3. Carbon dioxide and water The products of cellular respiration. Photosynthesis uses both as raw materials.
  4. ATP The energy carrier a cell can spend. Cellular respiration moves the energy of glucose into it.

How this list was compiled: Every name and step checked on 2026-10-01 against Nature Education, Scitable: Photosynthetic Cells (https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/photosynthetic-cells-14025371/); Wikipedia: Photosynthesis and Cellular respiration, text only; and Alberts and others, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition, chapter 14 (NCBI Bookshelf NBK26894 and NBK26819, archived copies). Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-10-01 from plain geometry; nothing traced. Licence: own work

How it works

This photosynthesis and cellular respiration diagram quiz names a part and you tap it on the drawing: a diagram to label, not a bank of test questions.

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Which box is on which arrow

The arrow over the top runs from the chloroplast to the mitochondrion, so its box holds what photosynthesis makes: glucose and oxygen. The arrow underneath runs back, and its box holds what cellular respiration gives off: carbon dioxide and water. Each pair is one answer. Light energy is the box beside the sun, and ATP is the box with rays above the mitochondrion.

Organelle or process

The chloroplast is the oval with stacks inside and the mitochondrion is the oval with a folded membrane inside. The two processes are the blank boxes under them, so photosynthesis is asked at the box and never at the oval above it.

Questions and answers

Is ATP made in photosynthesis or in cellular respiration?

In both. The light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis make ATP, but the Calvin cycle uses it up building sugar. The ATP box on this drawing sits by the mitochondrion, because cellular respiration makes the ATP a cell can spend on other work.

Where does the energy in ATP come from?

From light. Photosynthesis stores light energy in glucose, and cellular respiration moves that energy into ATP. Energy comes into the drawing once, at the sun, while the molecules on the two arrows go round.

What are the stacks inside a chloroplast called?

Grana: stacks of thylakoids. This quiz asks the chloroplast as one part, so the stacks are not asked by name.