Plants in General
What is soil made of?
Soil is a mixture of clay, sand, and humus.
What is CO2?
Carbon Dioxide
If a tree is cut down, how can you tell its age?
By counting the rings
Root
The root stores water and food, and also is where the xylem pulls the minerals and water from.
What are vascular plants?
Vascular plants have tubes, such as xylem and phloem.
What is glucose?
Glucose is the food plants produce through photosynthesis. It is a kind of sugar.
What are the rings made up of in a tree?
They are made up of dead xylem and phloem.
A stem holds up the plant and contains the xylem and the phloem.
What does “seedless” mean? What is an example of seedless plants?
Seedless means they cannot make seeds. Ferns and mosses reproduce in another way. Ferns and mosses are seedless.
Where do oxygen and CO2 from the air enter and leave the plant?
What is the stamen of a plant?
The stamen is the male part of a plant, and it contains the anther, which fertilizes the female part to make an egg.
Leaf
The leaf contains chlorophyll, which is the organelle that preforms photosynthesis.
What are three things plants need from the soil in order to live?
Water, minerals (nutrients), and air.
What organelle performs photosynthesis?
Chlorophyll.
What is the Pistil of a plant?
The pistil of a plant is the female part where the pollen interest into and fertilizes the egg.
Anther
The anther is on top of the staman and holds pollen.
What is hummus?
Hummus is composed of dead plants and animals, and contains lots of nutrients.
What three items does photosynthesis involve?
Sunlight, Water and CO2
What is the ovule?
The ovule is the part of the plant that contains the egg.
Xylem and Phloem
Xylem transfers water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant. The phloem takes the glucose from photosynthesis and transfers that throughout the plant.