Vocabulary
Vocabulary Continued
Plant Growth
Plant Adaptations
PLANTS!
100
substances that all living things need to live
What are nutrients?
100
process by which leaves give off water
What is transpiration?
100
What is the term for the process that joins a cut stem of one plant to a slice in the stem of another plant?
grafting
100
The _______ take in water.
What is a root?
100
What is a variable?
Something that you can control.
200
tiny cells from which some plants germinate
What are spores?
200
Sprouts and begin to grow
What is germinate?
200
Spores grow in _____.
What is capsules?
200
________ and water in the leaves combine to make sugar.
What is carbon dioxide?
200
Animals such as birds and bees feed on its _______, which helps the plants prepare more seeds.
What is nectar?
300
Gas breathed out by animals
What is carbon dioxide?
300
Swollen underground stem
What is tuber?
300
Grass is an example of a plant with what type of root.
What is fibrous roots?
300
Why do big trees have a lot of little leaves instead of just a few large leaves?
Having many small leaves instead of just a few very large leaves allows the tree to get sunlight at different times of the day.
300
The seed sprouts and becomes a _________.
seedling
400
deep roots that have tiny hairs to absorb water and nutrients
What are taproots?
400
Long, shallow roots
What are fibrous roots?
400
Sunlight is trapped by a leaf's _____.
What is chlorophyll?
400
Why are plants with active traps found in areas that have pooor soil?
The poor soils that these plants grow in do not provide the plants with the nutrients they need. So they must get the nutrients in other ways.
400
For a seed of a flowering plant to begin to grow, it needs ______, ______, and _____.
warmth, water, and air
500
Process by which plants make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
500
Each half of a leaf is a mirror image of the other
What is symmetry?
500
The leaves give off _______as a waste.
What is oxygen?
500
________ and water in the leaves combine to make ____.
What is carbon dioxide and sugar?
500
What would a plant have if it was to cling to other objects in order to reach sunlight?
vines
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