FLOWERS
WOODY STEMS
ROOTS
SIMPLE FRUITS
MISCELLANEOUS
FLOWER PARTS
100
The primary purpose of flowers.
What is seed production?
100
Another name for wood.
What is xylem tissue?
100
Roots that penetrate the soil deeply with relatively little branching.
What are taproots?
100
The entire fruit is fleshy and juicy throughout.
What is a berry?
100
The dispersal of dandelion seeds by the wind is an example of this.
What is agent dispersal?
100
Name letter J.
What is the petal?
200
The part of a flower that produces pollen.
What is the anther?
200
The alternating patterns formed in a woody stem by distinct layers of springwood and summerwood.
What are (annual) growth rings?
200
Tiny, tube-like projections that extend from the epidermal cells of a root to absorb water and minerals.
What are root hairs?
200
These fruits consist of a seed enclosed in a hard, relatively thick shell.
What is a nut?
200
The tough outer covering of a herbaceous monocot stem.
What is the rind?
200
Name letter C.
What is the style?
300
The part of a flower that covers and protects the rest of the flower during development.
What is the sepal?
300
The section of a twig between nodes.
What is an internode?
300
Where food is stored in a root?
What is the (root) cortex?
300
These fruits consist of an outer fleshy layer and an inner papery core.
What is a pome?
300
This cuts a fruit from the stem.
What is the abscission layer?
300
Name letter D
What is the stigma?
400
The chief factor determining when a plant flowers.
What is the length of day and night?
400
A young wood stem stores water in these soft, thin-walled cells at its center.
What is pith?
400
Special roots that grow from unusual regions of a plant.
What are adventitious roots?
400
These fruits consist of a pod enclosing several seeds.
What is a legume?
400
This occurs first in the process of germination.
What is the seed begins to absorb water?
400
Name letter A.
What is the ovary?
500
The type of grass flower that consists of stamens, pistils, and tiny sepals, and lacks petals, but is protected by special bracts.
What is an incomplete flower?
500
The small openings in a stem's bark that allow air to enter the stem.
What are lenticels?
500
The part of a seed's embryo that will develop into the root system of the new plant.
What is the radicle?
500
These fruits are produced by plants of the grass family.
What are grains?
500
When plants receive light from only one direction, they will bend toward the light.
What is phototropism?
500
Another name for the stem.
What is the pedicel?
600
Flowers that are not pollinated by other flowers.
What is self-pollination?
600
The older, inner wood of a stem that serves only as support for the stem.
What is heartwood?
600
Because stolons have nodes that can produce new roots, they are considered this, instead of roots.
What are special stems?
600
Because a strawberry grows from a single flower with several pistils, it is considered this type of fruit.
What is aggregate fruit?
600
A developing plant embryo is surrounded and nourished by this tissue.
What is endosperm?
600
This sits below the ovary.
What is the receptacle?