Plant Familes
They have square stems
What is the Mint Family
What is a seedling?
The force that brings water up a plant's transport tubes
What is transpiration?
The wild carrot
What is Queen Ann's Lace?
Their fruits are called legumes
What is the Pea Family
What are sepals?
They attract pollinators.
What are petals?
Leaves that are directly attached to the stem.
What are sessile?
The food making process
What is photosynthesis
Their fruits are called grains
What is the Grass Family
This is where the leaf attaches to the stem of a plant
What is the node?
Once the flower has been united with a pollen grain, this forms to transport the sperm cell to the egg cell.
What is the pollen tube?
Two growing seasons to complete its life cycle
What is biannual?
What are spores?
Monocots that grow from bulbs, corms, or rhizomes
What is the Amaryllis family?
Seed dispersal in which animal and birds assist
What is agent dispersal?
Transferring of pollen from the stamen to the top of the pistil.
What is pollination?
Carries water and nutrients FROM root hairs UP to the leaves
The type of flower usually found in the center of a composite flower.
What is a disk flower?
Most member have woody stems.
What is the Rose Family.
Seed dispersal in which a seed pod bursts.
What is mechanical dispersal?
Plant reproduction that doesn't involve fruit, seeds, or flowers.
What is vegetative?
Water and dissolved chemicals are absorbed through the cell membrane in this process
What is osmosis?
Stage of growth when a plants grows in length
What is primary growth?
Most important group of plants
What is the grass family?
Plants without vascular systems
What are bryophytes?
Fruit develops from this part of the flower
What is an ovary
Water enters the root hairs and creates an upward force known as this
What is root pressure?
Little green structures within a leaf that move
What are chloroplasts?
Its leaf shape resembles the foot of a birds, this it can also be called the crowfoot family
What is the buttercup family.
Nonwoody plant stems
What are herbaceous
These may sting you but they are great at pollination
What is a bee?
over 70% of the earth's surface is covered in this.
What is water?
These storage cells surround a root's transport tubes.
What is cortex?