Plant Characteristics
The stem of a tree
What is a trunk?
The name for organisms that can produce their own food
What is an autotroph?
When pollen from one flower travels to another
What is pollination?
What are leaves?
First plants to leave the ocean and grow on land
What are mosses?
Small plants with soft stems
What is a herbaceous plant?
What is chlorophyll?
Plants with colorful and attractive fruits and flowers
What are angiosperms?
Part of a plant that supports its leaves, flowers, and/or fruit
What is the stem?
How ferns reproduce
What are spores?
How plants produce their food
What is photosynthesis?
When plant mitochondria absorbs oxygen and releases CO2 and water
What is respiration?
The thing that is created when a zygote divides
What is an embryo?
The term for the root, stem, and leaves of a plant
What are plant organs?
The layer on ferns that keeps them from drying out
What is the epidermis?
The type of cells plants are made of
What are eukaryotic plant cells?
The thing needed to perform the chemical reaction for photosynthesis
The male reproductive organ in a plant
What is the stamen?
Part of a plant that absorbs and stores water and salts
What are roots?
The part of moss that keeps it attached to the things it grows on
What are rhizoids?
Stores water in the plant cells
What is the vacuole?
Conducting tissues that transport water, mineral salts, and organic matter through the plant
What are xylem and phloem?
A form of asexual reproduction in plants
What is propagating?
Thing that transports raw and elaborated sap through the plant
What is conducting tissue?
Where male and female reproductive organs are located in mosses
What is a gametophyte?