Plant Structures and Functions
The study of the world
What is science?
A person who studies plants
What is a botanist?
All organisms need this
What is energy?
The kind of fabric made from plants
What is cotton?
One way plants respond to touch
What is grasping an object they touch, closing when insects touch them
A way to show a complex thing
What is a model?
Two types of roots
What is fibrous and taproot?
Gas in the air
What is carbon dioxide?
What is sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds, almonds, pistachios, or rice?
Plants need this from the sun
What is light?
Way a person thinks
What is a worldview?
The woody stem of the a tree
Found in the stem of the cactus plant
What is the stomata?
White liquid found in the stem of a plant
What is rubber?
God designed plants to respond to gravity
What is roots pulling down and stems growing the opposite way of roots?
The leaves
What is the part of the plant where photosynthesis takes place?
The layers of wood that grow on the trunk each year
What are annual rings?
What is phloem?
The most common plant used to make rubber.
What is the rubber tree?
Plant is turned sideways the roots and stem go here
Roots go down and stem grows upward
The parts that an organism is made of.
What is a structure?
The 2 functions of the roots of a plant
What are anchoring the plant and getting nutrients?
Moves water and nutrients from roots to leaves
What is xylem?
The hard fruit of an almond tree
What is the drupe?
Some plants do not get all nutrients needed from the soil
What is an insect eating plant?