Vocabulary
A gas made of carbon and oxygen molecules
What is carbon dioxide?
The female part of a flower
What is the pistil?
The parts of the plant below the surface of the soil
What are the roots?
The four things needed for photosynthesis
What are chlorophyll, sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
The three ways plants are different from animals
1) They make their own food
2) Their cells have cell walls
3) They cannot move from place to place
The powdery dust on the ends of stamens that holds plant sperm cells
What is pollen?
The transfer of pollen from the stamen that holds plant sperm cells
What is pollination?
The part of the plant that runs from the ground up to the leaves. It holds the plant up to its leaves can get sunlight.
What is the stem?
____ comes from the roots through the stem to the leaves
What is water?
Reasons why plants are important to us
What are they give us air to breathe and food to eat?
The male parts of a flower
What are stamens?
Part of the plant which allows gas exchange
What is the stomata?
What are the flowers?
____ comes from the air and enters into small openings under the leaves
What is carbon dioxide?
Three things that all plants need to survive
What are oxygen, water, and food?
The green coloring in chloroplasts that traps sunlight
What is chlorophyll?
The colored outer parts of a flower that helps protect its inner parts and that attract insects
What are the petals?
The part of the plant where most of its chlorophyll is found
What are the leaves?
As ____ strikes, the chlorophyll in the leaves, energy is released
What is sunlight?
Seed plants have these four parts
What are roots, stems, leaves, and seeds?
The process by which plants make sugar using sunlight, water, chlorophyll, and carbon dioxide
What is photosynthesis?
The fruit of a plant that grows around the seed
What is the plant ovary?
Tiny new plants in a protective coating
What are seeds?
Carbon dioxide and water join together to make ____
What is sugar?
The process in which plants make their own food
What is photosynthesis?