Groups of Plants
Vocabulary
Parts of a Plant
How Plants Respond
Miscellaneous
100
What types of plants reproduce with seeds?
Flowering plants and plants with cones
100
What is the tiny part of a fern or moss that can grow into a new plant?
Spore
100
What do leaves do for a plant?
They make food for the plant.
100
How does gravity affect the roots of a plant?
They grow down, towards the pull of gravity.
100
What does a seed need to germinate?
Water
200
How are ferns and mosses different from flowering plants and plants with cones?
They reproduce with spores instead of seeds.
200
What is an organism?
A living thing
200
What are the 3 things a plants needs to make food?
Water, air, and sunlight
200
What does the stem of a plant grow towards?
Light
200
What type of plant is a pine tree?
A plant with cones
300
Why do flowering plants need animals, like bees, to help them reproduce?
Bees spread pollen from flower to flower
300
When a plant makes more of its own kind, it is doing what?
Reproducing
300
What do roots take in for a plant?
Water and nutrients
300
Why do most seeds germinate in the spring?
They need warm weather.
300
Why couldn't the leaves of a plant live without roots and stems?
Leaves needs roots and stems to get water and nutrients.
400
What do cones do for plants that grow them?
Cones make seeds, which allow the plants to reproduce.
400
What happens when a seed germinates?
It begins to grow
400
How are stems used by a plant?
They hold the plant upright, and carry water, food, and nutrients.
400
Why would the stems of an inside plant grow towards a window?
They are growing towards the sunlight.
400
What does sunlight give a plant?
Energy to make food
500
How are spores different from seeds?
Spores are smaller and do not have a supply of food for the young plant.
500
What plant parts make pollen?
Male cones or the male parts of a flower
500
How do the roots of a plant get food?
Food moves from the leaves to the stem and then to the roots.
500
How do the stems of a plant respond to gravity?
They grow up, away from the pull of gravity.
500
Do ferns and mosses make pollen? Why?
No, they use spores to reproduce. Plants with seeds make pollen.
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