Use the evidence in the text to select the photosynthetic organism.
Velvet ants look like ants covered in red hairs, but these insects are actually wasps! Velvet ants get sugars by eating nectar. The velvet ants use these sugars to get energy. Kangaroo paws are Australian plants that have fine red hairs covering their flowers and leaves. Kangaroo paw plants combine carbon dioxide and water to make sugars that the plants use as food.
Organisms that carry out photosynthesis are called photosynthetic organisms. During photosynthesis, these organisms use light energy, carbon dioxide, and water to produce sugars and oxygen.
Photosynthetic organisms also often have the following characteristics:
They are producers, which are organisms that make their own food inside their cells. Because producers make their own food, they typically do not eat other organisms.
Their cells contain chloroplasts, which are cell structures where photosynthesis occurs.
Their chloroplasts often contain a green substance called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll captures light energy from the Sun to power photosynthesis.
They use the sugars they produce during photosynthesis as food. This food provides energy that helps the organisms live, grow, and reproduce.
This organism is photosynthetic:
The text tells you that kangaroo paw plants combine water and carbon dioxide to make sugars that the plants use as food. This is evidence that the kangaroo paw plant is a photosynthetic organism.
This organism is not photosynthetic:
The text does not provide evidence that the velvet ant is photosynthetic.