Parts of Plants
Holds plant to the ground and takes in water and minerals from the soil.
Roots
Because they make their own food, they are at the ______ of the food chain supplying food and energy for all other life on the earth.
Bottom
An organism able to make their own food.
Autotrophs
An adaptation that helps a plant reduce water loss by having a waxy, waterproof layer.
Cuticle
Collects sunlight for photosynthesis (to make food for the plant).
Leaf
Plants collect this to make their own food.
Sunshine
The protective layer of a plant cell which major functions is the give the cell strength and structure.
Cell Wall
Fertilize plant seed egg.
Zygote
Makes seeds.
Flower
When plants have a lot of this they store it in stems, roots, seeds of fruit.
Sugars
Part of the cell that converts light energy from the Sun into sugars.
Chloroplast
Process of a plant reproducing by pieces breaking off and developing a whole new plant.
Vegetative reproduction.
Holds up plant leaves and flowers and transports water minerals around the plant.
Stem
The Carbon dioxide from the air and _____ from the soil join together using energy from the sun make sugars in the leaf.
Water
Types of plants that have no roots and cool dark areas (moss, algae, and liverworts)
Non-Vascular
The stage of the plant cycle that produces reproductive cells and gametes.
Gametophyte Stage
First part of the plant you see growing above ground as it develops from a seed.
Shoot
Plants and trees absorb _____ and release _____ as a result of photosynthesis.
Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen.
These types of plants are able to live in dry areas because they are able to get water from the ground.
Vascular plants
The stage of a plant cycle that produces spores, tiny cells that can grow into new organisms.
Sporophyte