Vocabulary
Thin cells that look like thread (or hair).
What are root hairs?
The three main structures used to identify plants.
What are leaves, stems, and seeds?
The plant parts that take water and nutrients up from the ground to the rest of the plant
What are roots?
Place where photosynthesis takes place.
What are leaves?
Seedless plants that use spores to reproduce.
What are ferns and mosses?
The process of using the energy from sunlight to make food from water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
Plants that can take in water directly from the soil lack what system?
What is a tube root system?
Groups of roots that cannot store food.
What are Fibrous Roots?
The waste product released by plants during the photosynthesis process.
What is oxygen?
A cell in a seedless plant that can grow into a new plant.
What is a spore?
What are stomata (singular: stoma)?
True or False: One classification group is roots, stems, and spores.
What is False.
Single large root that is able to store food and is covered in root hairs.
What is taproot?
A covering that helps keep water in and protets leaves the way skin protects your body.
What is the epidermis?
These protect the spores from too much heat or too little water and release the spores to drift through the air and settle.
What are spore cases?
The process of the plant releasing water through its stomata when it has enough.
What is transpiration?
What are the two primary forms of reproduction for plants?
What are seeds and spores.
Name the two types of stem.
Woody stems and nonwoody stems.
The part of the cell that holds the light energy.
What is chlorophyll?
True or False: Spores need light, nutrients, and water to grow.
What is true?
The process of breaking down sugars and releasing energy.
What is respiration?
Number of different known kinds of plants.
What is 400,000?
Type of stem that relies on the pressure of watery sap for support.
What is a nonwoody stem?
Process when stomata stays open, allowing water to escape.
What is transpiration?
Result of planting a spore in soil.
What is it will not grow?