Leaves
The process leaves use to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
Yellow dust inside flowers that helps with reproduction.
What is pollen?
Fruit protects and carries these for a plant’s reproduction.
What are seeds?
The base of the flower.
What is the receptacle?
The gas plants take in for photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
Tiny openings on the underside of leaves that take in carbon dioxide.
What are stomata?
The male reproductive part of a flower.
What is the stamen?
The part of the flower that develops into the fruit.
What is the ovary?
A mass of roots all about equal size.
What is a fibrous root system?
The gas plants release that humans and animals breathe.
What is oxygen?
The main vein down the center of a leaf blade.
What is the midrib?
The female reproductive part of a flower, made of stigma, style, ovary, and ovule.
What is the pistil?
A cucumber or tomato is considered this because it contains seeds.
What is a fruit?
The seed coat that protects the embryo.
What is the testa?
The main energy source for photosynthesis.
What is sunlight?
Leaves that are shed in the fall are called this.
What are deciduous leaves?
The brightly colored part of the flower that attracts pollinators.
What are petals?
Fruit often attracts these, which help spread seeds.
What are animals?
An underground food storage stem, such as a potato.
What is a tuber?
The sugar plants make and store during photosynthesis.
What is carbohydrate (or sugar)?
This part connects the leaf blade to the stem.
What is the petiole?
After fertilization, pollen travels down this tube to reach the ovary.
What is the style?
The scientific definition of a fruit.
What is a mature ovary?
The portion of the plant embryo that becomes the first root.
What is the radicle?
The three ingredients plants need to perform photosynthesis.
What are carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight?