Flower Parts
Fruit
Stems
Roots
Reproduction
100
The part labeled number 1
What is the ovary?
100
This is a simple fruit in which the entire ovary is fleshy and juicy throughout; examples include tomatoes, grapes, and oranges.
What is a berry?
100
The large bud at the end of a twig that allows the stem to grow in length.
What is the terminal bud?
100
Roots that penetrate the soil deeply with relatively little branching.
What are taproots?
100
The union of a sperm cell from a pollen grain with an egg cell in an ovule.
What is fertilization?
200
The part labeled number 2.
What is the stamen?
200
This is a simple fruit consisting of an outer fleshy layer and an inner papery core; examples include apples and pears.
What is a pome?
200
This kind of branching is exhibited by trees such as oaks and willows that develop several main branches, usually relatively close to the ground.
What is spreading branching?
200
Tiny, tubelike projections that extend from the epidermal cells of a root to absorb water and minerals.
What are root hairs?
200
The "seed leaves" of a plant embryo that contain stored food to supply the energy needed for sprouting.
What are cotyledons?
300
The part labeled number 3.
What is the sepal?
300
Type of fruit produced by plants of the grass family; examples include wheat and rice.
What is a grain?
300
The small openings in a stem's bark that allow air to enter the stem.
What are lenticels?
300
The part of a seed's embryo that will develop into the root system of the new plant.
What is the radicle?
300
The type of reproduction in which sperm and egg cells unite.
What is sexual reproduction?
400
The part labeled number 4.
What is the receptacle?
400
Type of fruit produced by a single flower with several pistils; examples include strawberries and blackberries.
What is an aggregate fruit?
400
The section of a twig between nodes.
What is the internode?
400
One-way diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
400
The process of a new plant growing from a root, stem, or leaf of an existing plant.
What is vegetative reproduction?
500
The part labeled number 5.
What is the pedicel?
500
A small dry seed with one or two winglike structures attached to it; examples include maple seeds.
What is a samara?
500
The outer section of a woody stem that protects the stem and contains the phloem and vascular cambium.
What is the bark?
500
The American scientist and botanist noted for his pioneering work in the science of agriculture.
Who is George Washington Carver?
500
The sprouting of a seed into a new plant.
What is germination?
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