Info About Plants
Organelles in plants that contain chlorophyll.
Chloroplasts
Plants that produce seeds in flowers.
Mosses
Hornworts
Liverworts
Specialized plant tissue that transports water and minerals throughout the plant.
Xylem
An enlarged tip of a rhizome that stores food.
Tuber
(Short Answer) What is photosynthesis?
The process plants use to make energy from the sun.
(Short Answer) What is transpiration?
When plants sweat.
A change in the growth of a plant in a response to a stimuli.
Tropism
A green pigment in plants.
Chlorophyll
A plant that produces seeds but no flowers.
Gymnosperm
(Short Answer) What are epiphytes?
The plant tissue that transport food from the leaves to the rest of the plant.
Phloem
A slender sensitive structure of many climbing plants.
Tendril
(Short Answer) What two things are needed for photosynthesis to occur?
Water & Carbon Dioxide
(Short Answer) What is pollination?
When pollen grains are transported from the male part of a plant to the female part.
The growth of a plant in response to light.
Phototropism
Plants that do not have vessels to transport material.
Nonvascular
Plants that complete their life cycle in one growing season.
Annuals
They help prevent soil erosion.
A large root that grows downward through the soil and has smaller roots branching off of it.
Taproot
The very center of the woody stem where water and food are stored in young plants.
Pith
(Short Answer) What are the two products of photosynthesis?
Oxygen and glucose
(Short Answer) What does it mean to cross-pollinate?
When the 2 different plants reproduce.
The growth of a plant in response to gravity.
Gravitropism
Plants that have vessels to transport materials throughout the plant.
Vascular
Plants that complete their life cycle in 2 growing seasons.
Biennials
The opening in a leaf through which gases can pass.
Stomata
A plant that produces one seed leaf.
Monocot
(Short Answer) How is cellular respiration different from photosynthesis?
It is the exact opposite.
(Short Answer) Give an example of how a plant reproduces asexually.
Runners
Grafting
Root Cuttings
A plant's growth response to touch.
Thigmotropism
Plants that live through many growing seasons and produce reproductive structures each year.
Perennials
A horizontal underground plant stem.
Rhizomes
Plants that produce two seed leaves.
Dicots
The biological response of a plant to changes in the amount of lightness and darkness within a 24-hour cycle.
Photoperiodism
These are more rapid plant movements that are not related to the direction of a stimulus.
Nastic Movements