Botany 1
What do you call the study of plants?
What is botany.
What holds the plants in the soil?
What are the roots.
Give me one fact from the booklet about plants.
Varies
What do plants produce that we need to live?
What is oxygen.
Inflorescence that looks like an umbrella with many small flowers pointing up
What is the umbel.
The outer covering of a seed?
What is the seed coat.
Water + ________ + light = plant growth
What is carbon dioxide.
What vascular plants need in order to grow? (4 things)
What is water, light, carbon dioxide and mineral nutrients.
Plants often store their sugars as ________ in their roots and other tissues?
starch.
What plants take in from animals (and humans) in order to live?
What is carbon dioxide.
What are plants with roots, stems that transport nutrients, and leaves called?
What are vascular plants.
Sugar that a plant produces?
What is glucose.
The process of a seed beginning to grow.
Where a plant makes its food?
What are the leaves.
Contain the seeds of gymnosperms?
What are the cones.
The process of plants making their own foods?
What is photosynthesis.
Scientist who study plants?
What are botanist.
Inside of a seed that is the beginning of a new plant.
What is the embryo.
Reproductive structure of angiosperms?
What is the flower.
Supports the part of the plant above the ground?
What is the stem.
What are flowering plants called?
What are angiosperms.
What are plants with seeds and cones?
What are gymnosperms.
Molecules in leave that absorb sunlight?
What is chlorophyll.
Provide food for a new plant until the plant has green leaves and can make its own food.
What are cotyledons.
Tiny holes on the underside of leaves that allow the plant to breathe.
What are called stomata.