Flower Power
To absorb water for the plant.
What is the main function of the roots?
This type of soil does not hold moisture very well.
What is sandy soil?
This practice can allow for farming fields to be reused after a short break.
What is crop rotation?
Plant roots prevent this from happening in surrounding landscapes.
What is Erosion?
A warm environment, typically with transparent walls to let in light. Useful for growing plants outside in the winter.
What is a greenhouse?
This part of the plant is responsible for creating food for the plant.
What is the leaf?
This practice can actually cause plants to quickly die if done too often.
What is fertilizing?
Soil particles become smaller and can compact more easily if this is done too often.
What is plowing?
The beginning of a life cycle of a flowering plant.
What is a seed?
This plant is often used by Indigenous peoples in ceremonies and rituals.
What is tobacco?
Holds the pollen on the flower.
What is the anther?
Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium.
What are the main components in fertilizer?
The amount of useful plant material grown on a crop.
Yield
The process that causes food coloring and water to be drawn up a celery stick.
What is capillary action?
This creature prefers plants as its diet.
What is a herbivore?
This plant piece is able to grow it's own roots and thrive after being cut off of another plant.
What are cuttings?
This type of soil has a good mixture of organic particles and minerals.
What is loam soil?
Monoculture farming, the process of growing only one type of plant, has this unintended consequence.
What is reduced biodiversity?
Carbon dioxide gas leaves the stomata of a plant by spreading out. (name the process)
What is diffusion?
Scientists remove and replace pieces of DNA from an organism.
What is genetic engineering?
This process involves plants expelling water through their leaves.
What is respiration?
This is formed in soil from dead plant and animal matter.
What is humus?
A farmer pollinates a second plant with pollen taken from a plant with desirable traits.
What is selective breeding?
The name for the mutual attraction of water molecules to each other.
What is cohesion/mutual attraction?
DDT, a pesticide, sometimes builds up in animals through the food chain.
What is bioaccumulation?