Leaf Anatomy
This controls the opening of the stomata
What are guard cells
The process plants use to make food for themselves, using energy, water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
A single leaf attached to a plant.
What is a simple leaf?
Why do plants turn colors in the fall?
Loss of chlorophyll
The waxy outer covering
What is the cuticle
Reactants of photosynthesis
What is Carbon Dioxide and water and sunlight?
The cells that surround the main vein that deliver sugar and water up the leaf
An invisible gas that plants "exhale" into the air in the process of making food. Humans inhale this gas in order to breathe.
What is Oxygen?
The place where a leaf connects to the tree or stem of the plant.
The green pigment found in all green plants which helps them produce food.
What is Chlorophyll?
Several leaflets attached to a single petiole, which is attached to a plant.
What is a compound leaf?
Plants will wilt when
They lose water faster than it can be replaced
The tiny openings on a leaf that take in gases to help make food for the plant and release oxygen and water
What are stomatas?
Column like cells where photosynthesis takes place
What are palisade cells?
The process by which water is released from the plants into the air.
What is transpiration?
Transports sugars; transports water
(say in correct order)
What is phloem; what is xylem
Banana-shaped cells that expand and shrink to open and close the stoma of a leaf
What are Guard Cells?
A living thing that makes it's own food, and does not need to consume another living thing to survive.
What is a producer?
Individual blades on a compound leaf.
What are leaflets?
When does the stomata stay closed and why?
On hotter days to conserve water