Roots
What is a sugar maple?
the tubes inside a plant that send water up from the roots to the rest of the plant
What is xylem?
the location of the largest tree in the world
What is California?
these house the seeds of conifers
What are cones?
new ferns that are curled over like a violin
What is a fiddlehead?
The process by which a root grows downward toward the earth
What is geotropism?
the tubes inside a plant that send the sugary food down from the leaves to the rest of the plant
What is phloem?
the species of tree that is the largest tree
What is giant sequoia?
a plant that retains its leaves through the winter
What is an evergreen?
ferns make these to reproduce
What are spores?
a root system made up of one thick main root growing down from the plant's main stem
What is a taproot?
Bundles of xylem and phloem within plants
What is the vascular cambium?
the species of tree that is the oldest tree
What is bristlecone pine?
plants that grow seeds in open containers
What are gymnosperms?
these are moss, lichen and liverworts
What are nonvascular plants?
the chemicals in plants that affect how they grow
What are auxins?
the process that causes a plant to grow towards a source of light
What is phototropism?
the name of the oldest tree
What is Methuselah?
a gymnosperm with leaves that are flat and wide like an angiosperm. Once thought to be extinct
What is a ginkgo?
combination of fungus and algae, which grows on trees
What is lichen?
the process that occurs when rain and wind whisk soil away
What is erosion?
stems that grow horizontally along the top of the earth
What are runners?
the bud at the tip of a twig or branch
What is the terminal bud?
a gymnosperm plant that grows in warm areas and looks like a palm tree
What is a cycad?
the transparent, heart shaped plantlet that is produced by a fern spore
What is a prothallus?