Botany & Seeds
Flowers, Pollination & Fruits
Leaves, Roots & Stems
Trees & Gymnosperms
Seedless Vascular & Nonvascular Plants
100

This is the biggest part of the embryo which provides food for the seed once it opens.

What is a Cotyledon?

100
The colorful part of the flower that attracts insects.
What is the petal?
100
Plant stems that grow sideways.
What are runners?
100
These are the oldest living things on earth.
What are trees?
100
The leafy branch of a fern
What is a frond?
200
These are the tubes that carry liquid up a plant.
What is Xylem?
200
A carnivorous plant that snaps shut when a small bug touches two of its microscopic hairs in succession.
What is a Venus Flytrap?
200
Tubes in the ground that absorb nutrients from the soil for the plant and hold the plant in place.
What are roots?
200
A developing tree that is at least a few feet high.
What is a sapling?
200
Tiny microscopic creatures which typically live in the water.
What is Algae?
300

The system of organizing and classifying living things.

What is Taxonomy?

300
A type of animal that sleeps during the day and comes awake during the night.
What is nocturnal?
300
A substance that absorbs the light leaves need to work and makes leaves green.
What is Chlorophyll?
300
These are the largest trees on earth and are found in California.
What are Giant Sequoias?
300

A living organism made up of algae and fungus living together in a symbiotic relationship

What is Lichen?

400

The larger vein located along the center of a leaf

What is the midrib?

400
The process in which seeds are removed from their plant and scattered.
What is Seed Dispersal?
400
A process plants use to make sugar that requires water, sunlight, carbon dioxide and chlorophyll.
What is Photosynthesis?
400

These are the oldest trees on earth and are found in California.

What is a Bristlecone Pine?

400
New fern plants produced by runners
What are Rhizomes?
500

These become a plants first "true leaves."

What are plumule?

500

The process in which pollen gets from the anther to the stigma without the help of a pollinator.

What is a Self-Pollination?

500
The fact that roots are always pointing down into the earth.
What is Geotropism?
500
A bud at the tip of a twig that sprouts forth a group of petioles and leaves and makes the twig grow longer.
What are Terminal Buds?
500
When two different organisms form a relationship where they are dependent on one another.
What is Symbiosis?
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