plants facts 1
What do plants release into the air?
Oxygen.
What makes a plant stand?
The stem.
What grows at the end of stems?
Leaves.
what are the 3 main things plants need to live?
Water, Air, And Sunlight.
Are plants living or nonliving?
Living.
this plant produces a skin irritant known as urushiol which can cause an allergic reaction like an itchy rash on the exposed skin.
Poison Ivy
What is a plant product that you have used already today?
Answers vary
What does the leaves of a plant absorb?
Sunlight.
What is a cultivated plant that is grown as food?
Crops
What do flowers make?
Seeds.
Name 2 "vegetables" that people usually forget or don't realize that they are actually fruits
Tomato, pumpkin, beans, peppers, cucumber, etc...
What are the four parts of a plant?
Roots, Stem, Leaves, and the Flower.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they become what age?
A. 2 years old B. 5 years old C. 10 years old
D. 20 years old
D. 20 years old
What fruit name is actually the Arabic term for "fingers"?
Bananas
What is one type of plant that is a carnivore? (It gets its nutrients from animals/insects)
the Venus fly trap
What fruit has their seeds on the outside instead of the inside?
Strawberries -
There are over 600 varieties of strawberries, each one containing around 200 seeds. The reason why a strawberry’s seeds are on the outside is because of the plant's structure, which has a central receptacle surrounded by tiny, dry fruits.
Not many people know that strawberry is a member of the rose family and not actually a berry (despite having ‘berry’ in its name!) Technically, it’s a ‘multiple fruit’, as it consists of tiny individual fruits embedded in its fleshy receptacle.
What are the two main divisions of plants?
vascular & non vascular
What does a plant start off as?
A Seed.
This plant is tall and grows rapidly - some grow almost a whole meter in just one day.
Bamboo
What is one part of a flower?
Petal, stamen, pistil, sepal
What holds the flower to the ground?
Its roots.
Whenever you eat a Carrot or Sweet Potato, what part of a plant are you eating?
The Roots.
What characteristic makes tomatoes and lemons different
Their outer layer
What is the female part of a plant?
The Pistol.
What do plants roots suck up?
Water from the soil.