Seed Dispersal
Fruit Types
Photosynthesis
Leaf Anatomy
Plant and Leaf Facts
100
This type of dispersal involves fruits flinging their seeds away like a slingshot.
What is mechanical dispersal?
100
Give two examples of Pepo fruits.
What are pumpkins and watermelons?
100
This gas is used by plants during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
This is the main "vein" of the leaf.
What is the midrib?
100
Producer or consumer: this description best describes plants.
What are producers?
200
List two ways that animals disperse seeds.
What is pooping out seeds and having burrs attached to the fur?
200
Peanut, acorn, and chestnut...one of the these three items is not really a nut.
What is a peanut?
200
This is purpose of photosynthesis.
What is to make food for the plant?
200
This is the blade or edge that surrounds the leaf.
What is the margin?
200
This structure in the plant takes in carbon dioxide and releases oxygen during photosynthesis.
What is the stomata?
300
This is the primary method for dispersing dandelion seeds and samaras.
What is wind dispersal?
300
This class of fleshy fruits includes grapes and blueberries, but not strawberries.
What are berries?
300
This molecule absorbs light from the sun to use during photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
300
This is the part of the leaf that is connected to the tree.
What is the petiole?
300
These structures expand and contract to open and close the stomata underneath the leaves of a plant.
What are guard cells?
400
This is the primary method for dispersing coconuts.
What is water dispersal?
400
This type of fleshy fruit has a core surrounded by fleshy tissue that can be eaten.
What is a pome?
400
This structure houses the chlorophyll inside of the plant cell.
What is the chloroplast?
400
This type of leaf has several leaflets attached to a single petiole.
What is a compound leaf?
400
This is the release of excess water from the plant (water that is not used during photosynthesis).
What is transpiration?
500
List five methods of seeds dispersal.
What are human dispersal, water dispersal, wind dispersal, mechanical dispersal, and animal dispersal?
500
This class of dry fruits has a single seed inside a shell, but the seed is separated from the shell. The class includes dandelions and strawberries.
What is achene?
500
This is the part of the plant in which most photosynthesis takes place.
What are the leaves?
500
These are the individual blades on a compound leaf.
What are the leaflets?
500
These types of plants lose their leaves in the winter.
What are deciduous?
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