Vocabulary
8 Characteristics of Life
Germination
Plants
Cells
100
An individual plant, animal, or single-celled life form.
What is an organism?
100
All living things absorb ________________.
What is energy?
100
This is absolutely necessary in order to begin the germination process.
What is water?
100
True or False: A plant with no roots cannot absorb water.
What is false?
100
The center of the cell where the cell's activities are directed.
What is the nucleus?
200
A thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue.
What is a stimulus?
200
All living things produce ___________________.
What is waste?
200
The embryonic leaf in a seed that provides energy to the plant during the germination process.
What is the cotyledon?
200
An opening on the surface of a leaf where carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water vapor pass in and out.
What is a stomate?
200
The part of the cell where the chemical energy of food is converted into a form the cell can use.
What is mitochondria?
300
Any of the distinct types of material of which animals or plants are made.
What is tissue?
300
All living things exchange ______________.
What are gases?
300
This is what happens to the cotyledon after the plant has broken the surface of the soil.
What is it falls off?
300
The process by which water flows through plants, entering the roots and exiting the stomates.
What is transpiration?
300
The outer boundary of the cell that maintains the internal environment of the cell by allowing food to enter and wastes to exit.
What is the cell membrane?
400
Area in the root of a plant where the cells are growing longer.
What is the zone of elongation?
400
All living things respond to ______________.
What is stimuli?
400
the outer part of the seed that comes off in the beginning of the germination process.
What is the seed coat?
400
The vascular system in plants that transports water and minerals to the rest of the plant.
What is the xylem?
400
This tiny little guys begin the process of making proteins.
What are the ribosomes?
500
When a seed or spore begins to grow and put out shoots after a period of dormancy.
What is germination?
500
All living things require this.
What is water?
500
The first structure to emerge from the seed during the germination process is the _______________.
What is the root?
500
The tissue within a plant that transports food made in the leaves to all the other parts of the plant.
What is the phloem?
500
A network of folded membranes that serve as the cell's transportation system and helps make proteins and other substances needed by the cell.
What is endoplasmic reticulum, or ER?
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