Vocabulary!
Part of the plant that absorbs water from the soil and anchors the plant to the ground.
What is root?
The process of water evaporating from leaves.
What is transpiration?
What is to absorb water?
The main 2 functions of a plant's stem.
What is a support structure and transport system?
The shape of most leaves.
What is flat and broad?
Part of the plant that transports food and water as well as supports the plant so it can reach sunlight.
What is stem?
Part of the stem that carries food from the leaves to the rest of the plant.
What is the phloem?
The outer layer of a root.
What is the epidermis?
The function (job) of the xylem.
What is to move water and minerals up the stem, transport is only in ONE DIRECTION?
The job of chloroplasts.
What is to trap the energy of the sun?
The way, waterproof covering of a leaf.
A green pigment that allows a plant to absorb the sun's light energy.
What is chlorophyll?
The job of the cortex.
The function of the phloem?
What is to move sugars that are made in the plant's leaves to other parts of the plant, it is a TWO WAY transport.
The function of the leaf's cuticle.
What is to prevent moisture from evaporating?
Tiny hole on the bottom of the leaf that allows gasses to enter or exit the leaf.
What is the stomata?
Part of the stem that carries water from roots to the rest of the plant.
What is the xylem?
What is absorbs water and minerals, stores food, and anchors the plant?
Difference between a soft and woody stem.
What is soft stem is soft and green and woody stem is covered with bark and does not contain chlorophyll?
What is plants need this to perform photosynthesis?
Part of the plant that makes food.
What is the leaf?
What is photosynthesis?
The four types of roots.
Describe ONE type of root.
What is:
aerial-roots that never touch the ground.
Fibrous- thin, branching, do not grow deep.
Taproots- Single, main stalk-like; grow deep in the ground.
Prop roots- Grow at the bottom of the plant's stem and prop up and support the plant.
The main function of leaves.
What is to carry out photosynthesis?