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 most common growing medium for plants across the planet.
What is Soil (or dirt)?
Something that is green and grows!
What is a plant? 🥰
The part of a plant responsible for absorbing and drawing moisture from the surrounding space, primarily 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?
The resource that plants absorb through root systems that has its own cycle.
What is Water?
Something green that grows off of a plant and sucks up sunlight!
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?
The plasma that plants absorb most commonly through leaves, and what allows you to see and read this right now.
What is Light (sunlight)?
A colorful thing that is pretty and attracts bees!
What is a flower? 🥰
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 type of plant that is a slow-growing woody perennial, meaning it often lives for centuries and has a tough bark around its center.
What is a Tree?
A large, stalky, perennial type of bright green plant under the family of grass. Known for its incredible height.
Hint: This plant is associated with pandas.
What is Bamboo?
A type of animal that helps flowering plants reproduce by cross contaminating plant pollen.
What is a Pollinator?
Something hard that grows on the outside of woody plants, especially trees!
What is bark? 🥰
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?
A plant that is born, reproduces, and dies off naturally within only one season/year. Many large-scale commercially sold plants fall under this category because of their extremely temporary nature.
Consider the type of plant you'd find outside Market Basket.
What is an Annual?
A genus of succulent known for its pharmaceutical properties, effectiveness against minor burns, and moisturizing ability. It commonly has little white dots all over and tiny spines running along the sides of its body.
What is Aloe (Vera)?
Another plant that siphons some amount of its own nutrients from another plant, effectively stealing from a host plant that it becomes attached to. These plants develop a special organ that allows them to pierce into another plant's tissue and directly draw out resources like water, nitrogen, carbon, and sugars.
What is a Parasitic Plant?
A tissue within vascular plants that translocates organic compounds made via photosynthesis, up or down throughout the plant.
What is the Phloem Tissue