Plant Careers
What career designs attractive, outdoor spaces like gardens and other public spaces?
Landscape designers
What root system is made up of one primary root that grows straight down from the stem?
A tap root
Stores materials like water, salts, proteins and carbs
Vacuoles
What does dormancy mean?
Resting stage for seeds when environmental conditions are not favorable for germination
Plant that completes its life in one year or less
What is a annual?
What career involves the arranging of flowers in a decorative way?
What is a florist?
What root system is made of a bunch of small primary and secondary roots?
A fibrous root system
Stores and moves materials between cell organelles, as well as to and from the cell structure
Vesicles
What is Germination?
Growth of the plant embryo/ when a plant begins to sprout
Process of making food
What is photosynthesis?
What career involves dealing with trees, shrubs and other woody plants?
What is an arborist?
What root system grows horizontally from the stem?
Strong supporting layer around the cell membrane
Cell Wall
Tubes within a plant structure which transport water and dissolved nutrients upward within a plant
Xylem
Plant that completes it's life in more than two years
What is a perennial?
What career protects and preserves parks, wildlife, and visitors1/
Park Ranger
What root system absorbs nutrients and oxygen from water?
Aquatic roots
Fluid portion of the cell
Cytoplasm
Plants responding to light by bending in the direction of the light source
Phototropism
Break down of food particles
What is respiration?
What career involves the study of insects?
What is an entomologist?
What is one function of a primary root?
Absorption, food storage and anchoring the plant
Structures of the cell that perform important tasks
Organelles
A plant’s response to day length which can affect flowering or production,dormancy onset, color, etc.
Photoperiodism
What is a biennial?