Trees
Trees are classified as this based on their life cycle.
What are perennials?
A leaf with pinnate structure is most likely from this type of plant.
What is a dicot?
These cells protect and cover the leaf.
What is the epidermis?
This is the opening in the leaf where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.
What is the stoma?
This type of special leaf holds a vine upright by coiling around a support structure.
What is a tendril?
Leaves, stems, and flowers are part of this system.
What is the shoot?
This is the bushy head of a tree.
What is the crown?
This is the stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem.
What is a petiole?
This carbohydrate strengthens plant cell walls.
What is cellulose?
This five letter compound is produced by the light reactions of photosynthesis.
What is NADPH?
These plants have special leaves that trap and digest insects.
What are insectivorous?
These are the four organs of a plant.
What are the root, stem, leaf, and flower?
These are the largest deciduous trees in America.
What are sycamores?
This type of leaf lacks a petiole.
What is sessile?
This is the process by which water vapor is lost from the leaves of plants.
What is transpiration?
This is the middle layer of the leaf where most photosynthesis occurs.
What is the mesophyll?
This is the pressure produced by water within cells.
What is turgor pressure?
This is the function of the stem.
What is to support leaves and move materials to all parts of the plant?
This group of trees produces fruits called samaras.
What are maples?
This type of leaf has more than one blade on the leaf stalk.
What is compound?
This is the term for a storage compartment within a cell.
What is a vacuole?
Merisystemic tissue helps a plant do this.
What is grow and repair tissue damage?
Transpiration faster than the roots can absorb water is called this.
What is wilting?
Plants are considered autotrophs because they do this.
What is make their own food?
The cork and parenchyma are this type of tissue.
What is structural tissue?
These structures control the flow of air and water into and out of a leaf.
What are guard cells?
This type of vascular tissue carries SAP upward.
What is Xylem?
An abscission layer is involved in this.
What is loss of leaves?
Fall leaf colors of red and yellow are caused by this.
What is chlorophyll deteriorating?
Organisms that cannot make their own food are called this.
What are heterotrophs?