Part Functions
What plant part grows to form a new plant?
Seeds
Do plants need food to grow and survive?
Yes
What might happen to a plant if it gets too cold or hot?
Living things that grow from the soil and turn light from the Sun into food
Plants
Which part of the plant is responsible for holding the plant in the group and absorbing nutrients from the soil?
Roots
Do plants need space to grow?
Yes
Name one thing plants respond to in their environments.
Multiple possible answers
1. Light
2. Temperature/Heat/Cold
3. Gravity
All of the living and nonliving things in a place
Environment
What part of the plant is responsible for reproduction?
Multiple possible answers
1. Seeds
2. Flowers
Where do plants get their nutrients?
From the ground/soil
If I turn a growing plant on it's side away from the light, what would it do?
The stem would bend and start growing towards the light.
To produce another living thing of the same kind
Reproduction
What does the stem do?
Multiple possible answers.
1. Helps hold the plant up
2. Carries water and nutrients through the plant
Name 3 things plants need to survive.
Pick any 3
Sunlight, water, nutrients, air, space, or soil
What is needed for a seed to germinate?
The correct temperature for that type of plant.
The process in which plants use sunlight to make their own food
Photosynthesis
What do leaves do?
Produces food for the plant.
Give yourself 200 bonus points if you answered "photosynthesis"
What is needed for photosynthesis, or for plants to create their food?
Air, Sunlight and Water
How do plants respond to gravity?
The roots grow downwards with the flow of gravity, but the step grows upwards against gravity.
The term used to describe when seeds start to grow
Germination