Vocabulary
The well known part of a plant that is commonly associated with pollinators and visual appeal.
What is a flower?
A type of succulent that has modified leaves in the form of defensive, pointed needles.
What is a cactus?
A famous carnivorous plant best known for trapping and digesting small bugs such as flies inside its jaw-like leaves to siphon nutrients.
What is a Venus Flytrap?
The part of a plant responsible for absorbing moisture in the surrounding space, primarily in soil.
What is the root system?
The product of some plants, created to allow reproduction. Characterized by its edibility to other organisms and seeds enclosed by it.
An example would be a cucumber.
What is a fruit?
A type of tree that thrives near the equator in tropical and subtropical environments, named after its broad, palmate compound leaves. They have a cylindrical trunk and cannot produce secondary growth.
What is a Palm Tree?
A long practiced, historical Japanese art of nurturing a tree or other woody perennial, while conditioning the plant to stay at a small size while still remaining healthy, appearing like a miniature version of the adult plant.
What is "bonsai"?
A type of plant that has adapted to arid environments where water is scarce. The conditions caused them to evolve into water-retention capabilities, letting these plants store collected water inside themselves for extra survivability during drought.
What is a succulent?
A type of plant famous for its large yellow flower and gigantic stem, with the ability to grow a 10' stem with the world record length stem being almost 36'. Its seeds are edible and a desirable commodity, often sold in bags and flavored.
What is a sunflower?
A common plant disease, more associated with food than plants, that presents as a fuzzy gray fungus growing off of many types of herbaceous plants.
What is "mold" (botrytis)?
A plant that completes its life cycle and dies off naturally after three or more growing seasons/years. Some of these plants, such as trees, are able to survive without dying off naturally for centuries.
What is a perennial?
What is Bamboo?
A plant process that allows a plant to chemically convert absorbed sources like water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide into viable food (glucose) and oxygen.
What is Photosynthesis?
The form of classification that encompasses all plant life in a given area or time period. One of the most prominent kingdoms in the six kingdoms of life.
What are Flora?
A genus of woody perennial shrubs. Hint: There is one in the school courtyard, that is distinctly Evergreen, with oval shaped leaves that curl up into itself when the sun isn't shining on it.
What is a Rhododendron?