Plant Basics
This green pigment helps plants absorb sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
Plants take in this gas from the air.
What is carbon dioxide?
This part absorbs water from the soil.
What are roots?
Nonvascular plants like mosses belong to this group.
What are bryophytes?
The largest plants on Earth are these giant trees.
What are redwoods?
Plants make their own food using this process.
What is photosynthesis?
Plants release this gas during photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
This part transports water and nutrients.
What is the stem?
Ferns reproduce using these instead of seeds.
What are spores?
This carnivorous plant snaps shut on insects.
What is the Venus flytrap?
The kingdom that includes mosses, ferns, and trees.
What is Plantae?
Most photosynthesis happens in this plant organ.
What is the leaf?
These structures contain seeds.
What are fruits?
Cone bearing plants such as pine trees.
What are gymnosperms?
Cacti are specially adapted to survive in this biome.
What is the desert?
These tiny openings on leaves allow gas exchange.
What is stomata?
This organelle is where photosynthesis occurs.
What is the chloroplast?
The male part of a flower.
What is the stamen?
Flowering plants are known by this scientific term.
What are angiosperms?
Bamboo is actually this type of plant.
What is grass?
The waxy outer layer that prevents water loss.
What is the cuticle?
The main energy source for photosynthesis.
The tissue that carries water upward in plants.
What is xylem?
Plants with vascular tissue belong to this major category.
What are vascular plants?
The world’s largest flower, famous for its smell.
What is Rafflesia?