Seeds
Seed Dispersal
Roots
Stems
Leaves
100
What does the embryo contain?
young plant and the begining of roots, stems and leaves
100
A big gust of wind came and blew me off the plant...
Wind dispersal
100
Many roots that form a tangled mass. They take up much soil with them when pulled from the ground.
Fibrous Roots
100
Usually green and softer stem type
Herbaceous stems
100
Pinnate leaf whose veins branch from midrib symmetrically
Opposite
200
The cotelydon is for?
the seeds food storage
200
A dog was running in the forest and when he brushed up against me I stuck to him in the hopes he would shake me off in an open field.
Animal transport
200
Tiny hairs that grow out of the roots surface to absorb water and minerals.
Root hairs
200
Tissue that allows water and nutrients to be absorbed up through the stems.
Xylem
200
The holes on the underside of the leaf that allow for gases to enter and exit the leaf.
The Stomata
300
Why is the seed coat important? What does it do?
Protects the embryo from drying out
300
When pine cones fall off a tree and land under the "mother plant"
Drop dispersal
300
One long thick main root
Taproots
300
Often brown, strong and supportive stem type
Woody stems
300
Vein pattern in which veins branch off petiole and spread out.
Palmate
400

When ________ are mature, the scale open.

Seeds

400
Squirels that burry their acorns and then forget where they put them participate in this dispersal method...
Carry Dispersal
400
Structure that protects the root from injury
The Root cap
400
Where is heartwood found in a woody stem?
The outside rings
400
Thick center vein of a leaf.
Midrib
500
The part of a pea plant that we eat...
The seeds
500
Projections that extend from a seed to help it attach to something to be carried away.
hooks and serrated edges
500
List 2 functions of a root
1. anchors plants in the ground 2. absorb water and minerals from the soil 3. sometimes store food
500
Tissue that allows food/glucose to flow from the stem to the rest of the plant
Phloem
500
Describe what a simple leaf would look like?
One main leaf on each stem
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