Structures
Processes
Dirty! Soil
Growth and Environments
Reproduction
100
those plants that make seeds
What is seed plants?
100
the plant process that pulls the water up from the roots
What is transpiration?
100
earth material composed of rock particles and decaying organic matter
What is soil?
100
the amount of useful plant material produced per plant, or per area planted in a particular crop
What is yield?
100
long stems that grow along the soil surface and produce new plants
What are runners?
200
the structure of the plant responsible for absorbing nutrients and water, and to anchor the plant
What are roots?
200
in cells, the movement of water across the cell membrane. Moving from high concentrations to low concentrations.
What is osmosis?
200
partly decomposed material from plants and animals that once were living
What is humus?
200
to be healthy, plants need water, air, nutrients, space and
What is light?
200
stems that grow underground and produce new plants
What are rhizomes?
300
the structure responsible for photosynthesis and water loss
What are the leaves?
300
the process by which plants use light energy, carbon dioxide, and water to make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
300
practice of planting a different crop in a particular field each year
What is crop rotation?
300
a technology for controlling pests in which the natural predators of the pest are introduced into an environment to reduce their population size
What is biological control?
300
produced when the pollen grains enter the carpel (female part of the flower)
What is a seed?
400
a pathway for water and food to move and support leaves and reproductive structures
What are stems?
400
to reproduce a plant by attaching part of one plant to a second plant
What is grafting?
400
particles in soil that come from plants and animals that have died
What are organic particles?
400
results of an action that were not predicted or planned
What are unintended consequences?
400
process in which male and female parts of a plant join to produce a seed
What is pollination?
500
contains an embryo that will form a new plant and supplies food for the embryo
What is a seed?
500
the reproduction of seed plants that does not involve the production of seeds
What is vegetative or asexual reproduction?
500
a type of soil that doesn’t contain much food for plants and it gets dry quickly
What is sandy soil?
500
a plant that has thick stems to store water might be adapted to live in the environment of
What a desert?
500
there are separate male and female _________ for reproduction.
What are cones?
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