Fruit or Vegetable?
Plant Facts
From the Lab
100

Carrot

What is a vegetable? (It is the root of the plant.)

100

The stem, roots, or leaves of a plant.

What is a vegetable?

100

The name of the straw-like structure inside a plant's stem where the water travels up to the leaves from the roots.

What is the xylem?

200

Cucumber

What is a fruit? (It has seeds inside.)

200

The process in which a plant makes food for itself.

What is photosynthesis?

200

Three things a plant must have in order to perform photosynthesis.

What are Sunlight, Water, & Carbon Dioxide?

300

Avocado

What is a fruit? (It has a pit in the middle.)

300
Where photosynthesis takes place within a plant.

What are the leaves?

300

The part of the celery plant we usually eat.

What is the stem or stalk?

400

Pepper

What is a fruit? (It has seeds inside.)

400

The sweet product of a plant that contains either seeds or a pit.

What is a fruit?

400

Human-made products that have a similar structure and function to xylem.

What are straws, pipes, tubes, etc.?

500

Spinach

What is a vegetable? (The leaves of a plant.)

500
The name of the structure in which food travels throughout a plant.

What is the phloem. (Phloem = Food)

500

The reason why the leaves changed color when we did our experiment.

What is the xylem carried the colored water from the bottom of the plant up to the leaves.

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