Plant Parts
What plant part supports the leaves, fruit, and flowers?
Stem
What process do plants use to make food using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water?
Photosynthesis
What is a plant growing toward a window responding to?
Light
What plant part takes in water and nutrients from the soil?
Roots
Who designed plants and their amazing functions?
God
What plant structure produces seeds and helps the plant reproduce?
Flower
What gas do plants take in during photosynthesis?
Carbon Dioxide
Cactus plants growing new, shallow roots after it rains are responding to what?
Water
What tiny openings on the underside of leaves take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen?
Stomata
According to the biblical view, why do plants have thorns, spines, and prickles?
They are part of God's judgment for sin.
What plant structure contains the seeds and can sometimes be eaten?
Fruit
What gas do plants give off during photosynthesis that people and animals need to breathe?
Oxygen
Give one example of a plant responding to touch.
A Venus flytrap trapping an insect OR a climbing plant using something to climb toward sunlight.
What internal leaf structures take in sunlight and are the place where photosynthesis happens?
Chloroplasts
How does photosynthesis benefit people and animals?
Plants use carbon dioxide and give off oxygen for people and animals to breathe.
What type of root has one long, thick root growing straight down from the stem?
Taproot
What three things are needed for photosynthesis?
Sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water
What might happen when a plant uses touch to climb an object?
It can climb toward sunlight.
What internal plant structure moves water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves?
Xylem
What is the biblical view of where thorns came from?
They came as part of God's judgment for sin at the Fall.
What are the five main external structures of a plant studied in this chapter?
Roots, stem, leaves, flowers, and fruit
Why is photosynthesis important for the survival and growth of plants, animals, and people?
Plants make food and release oxygen while using carbon dioxide.
Name the three things plants can respond to that are discussed in this chapter.
Light, water, and touch
What is the difference between a soft, green stem and a woody stem?
A soft, green stem is usually thin and lives through one growing season; a woody stem is harder and can live longer.
Thorns, spines, and prickles can protect plants, but what is their ultimate connection to God's design?
They are part of God's judgment after sin entered the world, yet God allowed them to benefit plants through protection, shade, warmth, or moisture collection.