Key Terms
When tiny pollen particles move to another part of the same or different flower.
What is pollination?
The stage of a plant life cycle when it sprouts from the ground.
What is the seedling stage?
A plant that takes two years to complete its life cycle.
What is a biannual?
Occurs when a plant uses sunlight to make sugar molecules which is food for the plant
What is photosynthesis?
The green substance that helps plants take in sunlight and turn it into food.
What is chlorophyll?
The stage when pollination and fertilization occur.
What is all evergreens are perennials.
Plants release these two things during photosynthesis.
Oxygen and sugar molecules.
The energy juice that gives us the energy we need to run, play, and do all the things we love. It keeps plants and us going!
These plants are sensitive to cold temperatures.
What is summer annuals?
The result of photosynthesis is the production of this.
What are carbohydrates?
The type of plant that sheds their leaves annually.
What is deciduous plants?
The scattering of seeds or fruits, occurs when a plant's seeds or fruits are moved to a new location
What is seed dispersal?
Name one example of a biennial plant.
What are leeks, parsley, fennel, silverbeet, black-eyed Susan, or carrots?
The core four basic plant needs.
What are water, sunlight, soil, and air.
The colorless, odorless gas found in our atmosphere. When photosynthesis occurs, plants like to absorb this gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
The plant life cycle stage when seed pods develop.
What is the fruiting stage?
These plants grow leaves, stems and roots the first year, then go dormant for the winter. In the second year the plant will flower and produce seeds before dying.
What are biennial plants?
This is needed so that the plants can absorb solar energy to make food.
What is sunlight?