Can someone explain how plants grow and make food?

Question

I tried to look it up in the internet but it is too complicating

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

Plants use the energy provided from captured sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen gas. The plant then consumes some of its sugars that it created for energy to grow and live, and stores the rest, and expels the excess oxygen which we use to breathe.