Flowering Plants and Broadleaf Trees
Root system with a small primary root.
What is a fibrous root system?
Protects and covers the leaf.
What is the epidermis?
Cork and parenchyma are what type of tissue?
What is structural tissue?
Green pigment that gives plants their color and enables them to capture the energy of light.
What is chlorophyll?
Organisms that can make their own food (through photosynthesis).
What is an autotroph?
The plant family is known for it's poisonous members.
What is the cashew family?
Leaves having more than one blade on every petiole.
What are compound leaves?
Vascular tissue that carries sap upward.
What is the xylem?
A storage compartment within a cell.
What is the vacuole?
Carbon Dioxide molecules combine with hydrogen atoms to produce a simple sugar called...
What is glucose?
Group of trees that produces winged fruits called samaras.
Type of venation with one major vein that has smaller veins extending outward like a feather.
What is pinnate?
Opening in a leaf.
What is the stoma?
What is cellulose?
Compound produced by light reactions of photosynthesis.
Bacteria that returns soil nitrogen to the air as atmospheric nitrogen.
What is denitrifying bacteria?
Leaves, stems, and flowers are part of what system?
What is the shoot system?
What's damaged if a plant cannot grow or repair tissue damage?
What is the meristematic tissue?
What allows for plants to absorb water and become firmer without bursting?
The middle layer of the leaf, where most photosynthesis occurs.
Category for plants with broad and flat leaves with flower parts that are arranged in groups of 4 or 5.
What is a dicot?
A leaf lacking a petiole.
What is a sessile leaf?
Two pigments naturally contained in the leaf that are masked by the chlorophyll.
What are blue and yellow pigments?
Type of cell that controls the flow of air and water into and out of a leaf.
What is a guard cell?
Process where a plant obtains energy by oxidizing sugars or burning sugars as fuel for energy.
What is cellular respiration?