Seeds
Describe a seed?
What is a small embryonic plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food?
Describe a root.
What is the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibers.
Name a stem that you eat?
What is Asparagus, rhubarb, broccoli stem, bamboo shoots, sugar cane, potato, celery, etc.?
Name a leaf that you eat?
What is spinach, lettuce, cabbage, kale, swiss chard, arugula, etc.?
Why are petals brightly colored?
What is to attract pollinators to the flower?
What is the seed coat?
What is the external part of the seed that protects the embryo?
What type of root does a carrot have?
What is a taproot?
What is a stem?
What is the part of the plant between the roots, leaves, and flowers?
What part of the leaf is broad and flat.
What is the blade?
What is the name of the female part of the flower?
What is the pistil?
The epicotyl / hypocotyl is the base of the plant's stem. What causes the stem to grow toward the surface?
What is light?
What part of the root is responsible for absorbing water and minerals?
What is the root hairs?
What stem par matches this definition: a part of a plant stem between two of the nodes from which leaves emerge.
What is an internode?
What are the three leaf arrangements?
What is alternate, opposite, and whorled?
Which part of the stamen is responsible for pollen production?
What is the anther?
Name 5 seeds that people eat.
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What type of root system looks like the top of the tree?
What is no?
What is the midrib of a leaf?
What is the main vein of a leaf that goes from the petiole to the tip of the leaf?
What protects the flower before it blooms?
What is the sepals?
What the radicale of the seed is responsible for which part development?
What is the roots?
What type of root branches from the primary roots?
What is the secondary roots?
Name the three functions of the stem.
What is ...
(1) the central support structure of the plant and
(2) transport water and nutrients absorbed in by the roots to the leaves and flowers?
What is the name of the the main vein of a leaf that goes from the petiole to the tip of the leaf?
What are the stipules?
What part of the flower becomes the fruit after pollination has happened?
What is the ovary?
Name two of the four functions of seeds.
What is ...
(1) maintain dormancy until better environmental conditions arise,
(2) afford protection to young plant at vulnerable developmental stage,
(3) contain adequate food supply until photosynthesis is possible, or
(4) dispersal of plants?
What are three of the four functions of roots?
What is ...
(1) Absorb water and nutrients from the soil,
(2) Anchor the plant into the ground,
(3) Move water and nutrients of the stem, or
(4) Store food?
What is the difference between a rhizome and a stolon?
What is a rhizome is a continuously growing horizontal underground stem which puts out lateral shoots and adventitious roots at intervals and a stolon is a creeping horizontal plant stem or runner that takes root at points along its length to form new plants.
What is the difference between a simple leaf, palmately compound, and pinnately compound leaf?
What is a simple leaf is a single leaf blade connected by a petiole to the stem, a palmately compound is a leaf that has its leaflets radiating outwards from the end of the petiole, and a pinnately compound is a leaf where the leaflets are arranged along the middle vein.
What is a flower?
What is the seed-bearing part of a plant, consisting of reproductive organs that are typically surrounded by a brightly colored petals?