General Botany
The definition of botany
What is the study of plants?
The scientific name for a seed's coat
The scientific name for flowering plants
What is angiosperm?
The process of leaves converting light into energy
What is photosynthesis?
A type of root system with one thick, main root growing down
What is a taproot?
Plants with tubes to transport fluids, like water
What are vascular plants?
A plant whose seeds have two cotyledons and whose leaves have branching veins
What is a dicot?
The flower family of apples, raspberries, and almonds
What is the rose family?
The edge of the leaf
What is the margin?
A type of plant whose stems are green and easy to bend
What is herbaceous?
A person who studies plants
What is a botanist?
The name of the creature that pollinates the milkweed plant
What is monarch butterfly?
The part of a flower that creates pollen
What is the stamen?
(or anther)
Two types of leaf arrangement
What are opposite and alternate?
(also, whorled!)
A root system with a series of roots growing in many directions
What is a fibrous root system?
A list of reasons for keeping a nature journal
What are to practice observing, to keep records, to notice the wonder of God's creation?
(answers will vary)
The only food that we were able to eat at our pollinator picnic
What is mayonnaise?
An example of a pepo
Reminder: a pepo is a modified berry and a type of fleshy fruit
What is a watermelon or pumpkin?
The little "mouths" on the bottom side of leaves
What are stoma?
The names of the tubes that send water from the roots to the plant and that send sugary food from the leaves to the rest of the plant
What are xylem and phloem?
An example of a nonvascular plant
What is moss?
(other answers may be accepted!)
The scientific name for a seed's "belly button"
What is hilum?
Five methods for seed dispersal
What are human, water, animal, wind, and mechanical?
(or FIRE!)
The inputs and outputs of photosynthesis
What are carbon dioxide/water/light (inputs) and oxygen/sugar (outputs)?
List of three reasons why roots are important
What are to absorb water, to absorb nutrients, to anchor the plant, and to prevent erosion?