Vocabulary
Living Things
Cells
Plants
Potpourri
100
A living thing.
What is an organism?
100
Term for a very young tree.
What is a sapling?
100

A scientific device that allows a user to see magnified cells.

What is a microscope?

100
The three basic plant parts.
What are root, stem, and leaves?
100
The term for a young plant.
What is a seedling?
200
A naturally occurring substance that is neither plant nor animal.
What is a mineral?
200
The scientific word that describes when organisms send, collect, and respond to signals in order to share information.
What is communication?
200

Control center of a cell. (A10-11)

What is a nucleus?

200

The reason many leaves are green. (A18)

What is chlorophyll?

200

A plant that needs insects to supply all the nutrients it requires. (A23)

What is a Venus'-Flytrap?

300
The scientific name for a young plant that is just beginning to grow.
What is an embryo?
300
The scientific word for the way a living thing changes during its life.
What is development?
300

A clear, jellylike material that fills cells. (A10-11)

What is cytoplasm?

300

The energy a plant needs to make food.

What is sunlight?

300

The four basic things needed to keep a plant alive and growing.

What are air (carbon dioxide/oxygen), water, nutrients, and sunlight?

400
The passing of characteristics from parent to offspring.
What is heredity?
400
The four specific things that make up an environment.
What are air, water, soil, and other organisms?
400

The parts of a plant cell that makes food. (A10-11)

What are chloroplasts?

400

The two "ingredients" used by a plant to make food.

What are water and carbon dioxide?

400

A type of tree including pine trees, spruces, and hemlocks.

What is conifer?

500
A gas in the air and water that is released by plants.
What is oxygen?
500
The five stages of a plant's life cycle.
What are begins life, grows, develops, reproduces, and dies?
500

The two parts of a cell that a plant cell contains that an animal cell does not. (A10-11)

What are a cell wall and chloroplast?

500
The part of the plant that acts as a "road" and allows nutrients to travel throughout a plant.
What is a stem?
500
Term for an underground stem, including an onion.
What is a bulb?
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