Row A
This plant family is known for its poisonous members.
What is cashew?
The place where an organism lives.
What is its habitat?
The field of biology that studies animals.
What is zoology?
The field of biology that studies plants.
What is botany?
The bushy head of a tree.
What is the crown?
Root system that has a large primary root that grows straight down.
What is a taproot?
All trees are classified as _____ based on their life cycles.
What is perennials?
The term used to refer to nonwoody plants.
Root system that does not have a distinct primary root and all roots are about the same size.
What is a fibrous root system?
Flowering seed plants.
What is an angiosperm?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is an autotroph?
An organism that cannot produce its own food.
What is a heterotroph?
The creeping aboveground stem of a grass plant.
What is a stolon?
The part of the plant that is usually underground.
What is the root system?
The part of the plant that is usually above ground.
What is the shoot system?
The 3 most important cereal crops.
What are wheat, rice, and corn?
A leaf that lacks a petiole.
What is a sessile leaf?
Cells that control the opening and closing of a stoma on a leaf.
What are guard cells?
The loss of water vapor from leaves.
What is transpiration?
The storage compartment within a cell.
What is a vacuole?
Trees that lose their leaves each fall.
What is deciduous?
Special cell layer that forms to cut a leaf from a stem.
Tissue that transports dissolved minerals upward from the roots to the leaves.
What is xylem?
A plant whose leaves trap and digest insects is a ______ plant (e.g., Venus flytrap).
What is insectivorous plants?
The pressure produced by water within a cell.