Aerobic cellular respiration is a chemical process that uses oxygen from the air and glucose to provide energy for life processes.

Oxygen is a gas in the air and a reactant in aerobic cellular respiration.

Carbon dioxide is a gas made of carbon and oxygen, and a product of aerobic cellular respiration.

Subcellular structures, called mitochondria, use glucose and oxygen for aerobic cellular respiration.

The cytoplasm is the jelly-like substance inside a cell where chemical reactions of the cell take place.

Aerobic cellular respiration

Science

Pupils will learn how producers make glucose using photosynthesis, which is used to make biomass and as a fuel for cellular respiration.

Pupils learned how food is broken down to release useful substances such as sugar.

Complete the word summary for cellular respiration; glucose + {{}} → carbon dioxide and water.

Where does respiration take place in fungi, plants and animals?

Match the substances to the description of their role in cellular respiration.

What type of food can easily be broken down into glucose?

True or false? A skin cell will have more mitochondria than a muscle cell.

Living organisms undergo cellular respiration to provide {{}} for life processes.

True or false? Respiration takes place all of the time.

Sam: Respiration involves chemical reactions that take place inside cells.

Laura: Respiration only takes place in muscle cells.

Izzy: Respiration is the same as breathing.

True or false? Glucose can be described as a fuel.

True or false? Breathing and cellular respiration are the same thing.

 A mechanical process not involving chemical reactions.

Chemical reactions that take place to provide energy.