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Substances that all living things need to grow.
What are nutrients?
100
Gas breathed out by animals.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
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Process by which plants make their own food?
What is Photosynthesis?
100
Process by which plants give off water?
What is transpiration?
100
State of lower activity during cold seasons.
What is Dormancy?
200
Long, shallow roots.
What are Fibrous Roots?
200
Deep roots that have tiny hairs to absorb water and nutrients.
What are Taproots?
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Swollen underground stem.
What is a Tuber?
200
Sprouts and begins to grow.
What is Germinate?
200
Tiny cells from which plants germinate.
What are Spores?
300
Pollen is carried from a stamen to a pistil.
What is Pollination?
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Part of a flower that makes pollen.
What is a Stamen?
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Part of a flower that makes pollen.
What is a Pistil?
300
The process that joins a cut stem of one pant to a slice in the stem of another plant.
What is Grafting?
300
Spores grow in _____.
What is Capsules?
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The type of root that grass has.
What are Fibrous Roots?
400
Sunlight is trapped by a leaf's _____.
What is Chlorophyll?
400
The leaves give off ____ as waste.
What is Oxygen?
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The ____ take in water.
What are roots?
400
Since photo means "light" and synthesis means "putting together", how does the word photosynthesis describe the process by which a plant makes its own food?
Plants use light energy to put together carbon dioxide, and water to make their own food.
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____ and ____ in the leaves are used to make _____
Water and carbon dioxide make sugar.
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Why do big trees have a great many leaves instead of just a few very large leaves?
Having many small leaves allows the tree to absorb more light at all different times of day.
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Why are plants with active traps found in areas that have poor soil?
The poor soils that these plants grow in do not provide the plants with the nutrients they need. So they must get nutrients in other ways.
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Plants that have long roots to help them absorb nutrients from the mud.
What are waterlilies?
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Plants that have roots that grow near the surface to hep them obtain water.
What are Cacti?
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