Plant Power
Plants need water, soil, air, and this bright light from the sky to grow big and strong.
What is Sunlight?
This part of the plant grows underground, drinks up water, and holds the plant steady.
What are the roots?
These bright, colorful parts of a plant bloom to attract helpful insects like bees and butterflies.
What are petals/flowers?
These wriggly underground neighbors break down old leaves and make the soil super healthy for plants.
What are earthworms?
This beautiful, bright orange flower is the state flower of California and opens up its petals when the sun is shining.
What is a California Poppy?
This green color in leaves works like a tiny solar panel to trap sunlight.
What is Clorophyll?
This acts like a giant straw to carry water up from the roots to the leaves.
What is the stem?
This is the sweet or fleshy part of a plant that grows around a seed to protect it, like an apple or a watermelon.
What is a fruit?
This hot, dry habitat has very sandy soil that doesn't hold much water. Plants like cacti and animals like rattlesnakes call this place home.
What is the desert?
This tall, juicy desert plant has sharp spines and grows bright pink or yellow fruit that looks like a pear.
What is a Prickly Pear Cactus?
During the day, plants give off this vital gas that humans and animals need to breathe.
What is Oxygen?
This flat, green part of the plant acts like a food factory catching sunlight.
What is a leaf?
This word describes a baby plant starting to sprout and grow out of its seed coat.
What is germination?
This dark, rich part of the soil is made from completely rotted leaves and bugs, giving plants lots of vitamins. This nutrient-rich soil is made of decomposed organic materials like food scraps, rotted leaves, bugs and coffee grounds.
What is compost?
This native San Diego plant has long, skinny leaves and small white flowers. It is the only food that fuzzy Monarch butterfly caterpillars can eat to grow big and strong!
What is Narrowleaf Milkweed?
Plants take in this gas from the air, which is the gas humans breathe out.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the orange or yellow powder inside a flower that gets carried to other flowers to help them make seeds
What is pollen?
Bees, bats, and the wind help plants reproduce by doing this job of moving pollen.
What is pollination?
This type of soil is super gritty, has large grains, and lets water drain through it very fast, like at the beach.
what is sand?
This is the scientific name for the process plants use to bake their own food using sunlight.
What is Photosynthesis?
This sticky liquid flows inside tree trunks and is boiled down to make delicious pancake syrup.
What is sap?
Pine trees don't have flowers; instead, they grow their seeds inside these hard, woody structures.
What are pinecones?
This sticky type of soil has tiny particles, holds onto water for a long time, and can be used to make pottery.
What is clay?
This famous tree grows naturally in coastal San Diego and nowhere else in the United States. It has long pine needles and pinecones.
What is a Torrey Pine?