Seeds
The outer layer of the seed that protects the embryo.
What is the seed coat?
The part of the plant that holds the it in the soil and draws in water and minerals.
What are the roots?
The part of the flower that is often colorful and pleasant to smell in order to attract pollinators.
What are the petals?
This provides the energy to fuel the process of photosynthesis.
What is light?
The process by which the pollen from a stamen's anther is transferred to the stigma of a plant and moves into the ovary where a seed is produced.
What is pollination?
The new plant inside the seed.
What is the embryo?
This part of the plant is designed for seed production.
What is a flower?
The part of the flower that manufactures pollen.
What is the stamen? (Filament)
The gas that green plants take from the atmosphere to produce food.
What is carbon dioxide?
After a seed is produced in the ovary of a plant, this grows around the seed to protect it and help it move away from the mother plant.
What is the fruit?
The scientific name for the stored food contained in the seed.
What is cotyledon?
These plant parts are repsonsible for producing food for the plant through photosynthesis.
What are the leaves?
The sticky part of the plant designed to "catch" and receive the pollen.
What is the stigma?
This gas, which all animals need to breathe, is a by-product of photosynthesis and released into the atmostphere by green plants.
What is oxygen?
This "baby" plant consists of a plants first leaves and comes out of the soil after a seed has germinated.
What is a seedling?
The term used to describe a seed that is not growing yet, or "asleep".
The small protective leaves that protect the flower bud.
What are sepals?
The green substance found in the plant cells where photosynthesis takes place.
What is chlorophyll?
A plant is considered mature when it can do this.
What is reproduce/produce seeds?
The term used to describe the process of a seed "waking up" and beginning to grow.
What is germinate?
This part of the plant houses and protects the seed.
What is the fruit?
The part of the flower's stigma where the seed is produced.
What is the ovary?
Photosynthesis is a chemical process that takes the energy from light, carbon dioxide, and water, and creates these two substances.
What are sugar and oxygen?
In order for a seed to germinate, it needs these three things.
What are water, oxygen, and the right temperature?