Parts of a Plant
What is one function of the roots?
To anchor the plant or absorb food from the soil
What helps plants absorb nutrients and break down food?
Water
This is the process of the act of setting seeds or crops into the ground to grow
Planting
What part of the world is the Asian Bleeding-Heart from?
Asia (Native to Siberia, northern China, Korea, and Japan)
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What is the function of the stem?
Provides support and holds up leaves, flowers, and fruits allowing them to access sunlight
What helps the roots of the plants spread out and absorb all the nutrients and water?
Space
What do plants provide for the world and humans?
Food and oxygen
What color is the Himalayan blue-poppy?
Blue
George Washington Carver developed hundreds of uses for which crops?
Peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes
What is the function of leaves?
To make food for the plants through photosynthesis
What comes from soil and sunlight and helps the plants maintain their structures and function?
Nutrients
What is the process of creating new plants from existing ones?
Propagation
What do young sunflowers do when the sun moves across the sky?
Turn to follow it
Marie Clark Taylor attended and taught at which historical Black university?
Howard University
What is the function of the flowers?
Their main purpose is creating more plants, they have a reproductive process and create more plants
What gives plants the carbon dioxide needed for photosynthesis?
Air
What is the movement of a liquid through or along another material against gravity?
Capillary Action
Where are baobab's native to?
Africa and Australia
Washington, DC, sits on the ancestral lands of which people?
Anacostans
Which part of the plant turns into a fruit?
The flower
Where do plants get energy for a process called photosynthesis?
Sunlight
Why do plants use capillary action?
To bring water up the roots and stems to the rest of plant
Alfalfa sprouts are the ___ growth stage of the alfalfa plant
Early
Carl Linnaeus created a system that does what?
Classify plants and animals, using 2 names