What Living Things Need
I am a living thing that makes my own food.
What is a green plant?
This can grow into a new plant. Most fruits have these.
seed
When a fruit is BLANK it can be picked and is ready to be eaten.
What is ripe?
I hold the plant in the soil. I also take in water and minerals. I also store food for the plant.
roots
Another name for Plants with seeds.
What is spermatophytes
I am the 3 BASIC things a plant needs to make its own food.
sunlight, CO2 and water.
I am 3 things that can move pollen between flowers. Also these can be ways seeds are dispersed also.
What are birds, bees, wind and water.
Fruits protect me. I live inside a fruit. There can be 1 of me or many, many of me.
seed
I take in air and use sunlight to make food.
leaves
This is when pollen drops from the anther into the pistol of the same flower.
self pollination.
When plants make food, they give off this gas. We need to breathe this in order to live.
oxygen
The word people use to call the stems that run parallel above the ground then bud and root and form new plants.
stolons
I am an orange fruit sometimes with seeds. I am round and shiny on the outside with a peel and juicy on the inside.
orange
O hold up the plant. I allow water and food to travel through the plant.
stem
Give an example of a plant without seeds.
mosses and ferns
Substances in rock and soil that help plants and animals grow.
minerals
The word for these underground stems like potatoes that eventually give rise to a new plant.
What is tuber?
I am round. I can be small or up to the size of a baseball and I turn from green to red. I am full of seeds that can be eaten when I am sliced. Many people think I’m a vegetable.
What is a tomato?
The part of a plant that can become a fruit.
What is a flower?
Name two types of cross pollination.
What is anemophilous (wind) and entomophilous (insects).
I am the tiny pores in leaves that take in the CO2 necessary for photosynthesis.
stomata
The method of growing a new plant from a cutting.
What is Fragmentation.
Roots always grow down into me to keep the plant in one place. There are many minerals in me. And the fruit plant anchors into me.
What is the ground or soil?
Most flowers make me. I am a sticky powder inside the flower than helps to make the seeds.
What is pollen?
Name the three parts of the pistal.
What is the stigma style and ovary.