Plant Vocabulary
This is the type of gas (air) given off during photosynthesis.
Oxygen
This is the part of the plant that makes food.
Leaf
This is a fully grown plant with leaves, roots, and a stem.
Adult plant
This flower will always point towards the sun. It will even move as the sun moves across the sky.
Sunflower
There are over 375,000 known species of __________ on Earth.
Plants
This is the green pigment found in a plant's leaves. It helps the plant make food.
Chlorophyll
This is the part of a plant that soaks up water and minerals.
Roots
This is the name of a young plant raised from seed.
Seedling
This is the only fruit with the seeds on the outside.
Strawberry
This is the largest seed in the world.
Coconut
This is the type of food that plants make in their leaves.
Glucose (sugar)
This is the part of a plant used for support. It has tubes for carrying food, minerals, and water.
Stem
This is the process when pollens are picked from one flower and moved to another.
Pollination
There are about _____ kernels on an ear of corn.
800
Cactus stems are usually very thick, because they store __________ inside.
Water
This is the type of gas (air) needed by plants for photosynthesis.
Carbon dioxide
This part of a plant holds and protects seeds.
Fruit
This is the process during which a plant grows from a seed into a seedling. (Hint: A "germ" is the first stage from which something may develop.)
Seed germination
Bamboo can grown over ____ feet in a single day.
3
A Venus flytrap is one of the only plants that can eat _________.
Animals
This is the process that plants use to make food.
Photosynthesis
This part of a plant makes seeds.
Flowers
A strawberry is an example of a _______ with _______.
Fruit, seeds
_________ are the tallest trees in the world. They can grow to be over 370 feet tall.
Giant Redwood trees
Banana plants are the _________ plants in the world that do not have wooden stems.
Largest