CELLS
The function of vacuoles
What is storage?
This category of tissue carries sugar and water in plants.
What is vascular tissue?
The Stomata are found in the _____
What is the Lower Epidermis?
The factor that has the greatest affect on photosynthesis
What is the amount of sunlight?
Photosynthesis occurs in this organelle.
What is the chloroplast?
The tissue that covers and protects leaves
What is epidermal tissue?
This tissue has the most chloroplasts of all the leaf tissues
What is the Palisade Mesophyll?
Water pressure inside plant cells is called ____________ pressure
What is turgor pressure?
This green pigment captures the energy of sunlight during photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
The tissue that conducts water and minerals upward from the roots
What is xylem?
This tissue is actually dead
What is Xylem?
The process of converting sunlight into the chemical energy of glucose
What is photosynthesis?
Plant and animal cells share 3 main parts.
What are the nucleus, cell membrane and cytoplasm?
Leaves are made of several different types of ____.
What are tissues?
Openings in leaves that allow gases to enter and exit the leaf
What are stomata?
This gas goes out through the stomata after photosynthesis
What is O2?
The carbohydrate that gives plant cell walls their strength.
What is cellulose?
This tissue carries food or glucose throughout the plant.
What is phloem?
Why are Palisade cells so close together?
What is to catch sunlight?
The loss of water vapor through the stomata of the leaves
What is transpiration?
Stacks of small disks are found inside the chloroplast.
What is a thylakoid?
The middle layer of the leaf where most photosynthesis occurs.
What is the palisades mesophyll?
Structures that control the flow of gases through the stomata, sometimes helping to conserve water.
What are guard cells?
Breaking down food to release usable energy in the form of ATP
What is cellular respiration?
This cell structure prevents plant cell membranes from bursting when they swell with water.
What is the cell wall?
Why are the Cuticle and the top Epidermis clear?
What is to allow sunshine to reach the chloroplasts in the Palisade Mesosphere layer
Why are there spaces in the Spongy Mesophyll?
What is "to allow gas exchange"?
When another part of the plant needs sugar, this tissue carries sugar to where it is needed
What is the Phloem?