Plant Support
This plant structure supports the plant by anchoring it in soil, and takes in water and nutrients.
What is a root?
This plant structure is where photosynthesis usually occurs.
What is a leaf?
These types of leaves conserve water by using hairs to trap water that is leaving the plant.
What are hairy leaves?
A kind of leaf that is stiff, hard, thin, and very sharp.
What is a spine?
When a substance is this, it makes a living organism sick/die when it is consumed.
What is poisonous?
Plants with this type of root have spread out roots that take in water close to the surface of the soil.
What are fibrous roots?
The process in which plants use energy from light to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
What structure of a cactus holds extra water until it is needed?
What are stems?
(swollen stem is fine too)
A sharp, pointy kind of branch or stem.
What is a thorn?
A sticky liquid many conifers produce in their stem and leaves to protect the tree from insects.
What is resin?
This plant structure connects the leaves with the roots.
What is a stem?
A green substance found in leaves and some other structures that captures energy in sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
This behavior seen in mimosa trees can help plants save water.
What are folding leaves?
A structure that grows out of the outer covering of a plant stem. Are sharp and pointy as well.
What is a prickle?
Foxglove plants have poison in their _, _, and _.
What are leaves, flower, and seeds?
(similar order accepted)
A system of tubes connecting the leaves, stems and roots. Carries food, water, and nutrients to all parts of a plant.
What is a plant's vascular system?
Plants need these three things to make food.
What are air (CO2), water, and energy from light?
(Accept similar order)
A cactus leaf can conserve water because they have a small surface and no these.
What are holes?
The tough outer covering of the stems of most trees and many bushes.
What is bark?
A black walnut tree produces poisonous substances in their _ to prevent other plants from growing nearby.
Each tube in a plant's vascular system carries materials in only __ direction at a time.
What is one?
Photosynthesis produces these two things.
What is oxygen and sugar (plant food)?
What are waxy leaves?
These type of leaves are slippery and, thus, difficult for insects to eat.
What are waxy leaves?
Some plants are not poisonous, but rather, have these type of tasting fruit to prevent certain animals from eating it.
What is bad?