The process of using the sun's energy to make food from water, carbon dioxide, and nutrients.
What is photosynthesis?
100
Roots play a very important role in photosynthesis. Their main job is to ...
What is take in water and nutrients from the soil?
100
Structures produced by a plant that contains a tiny undeveloped plant and a supply of food for the plant.
What are seeds?
100
When something is vascular, it has vessels that carry things from one place to another. When we looked at "non-vascular" plants, we learned that the prefix "non" means what?
What is "not"?
100
The formula for water.
What is H2O?
200
The energy used to make food comes from this object
What is the sun?
200
Stems are a highway for transportation of _________ from the roots to the leaves.
What is water?
200
The transfer of pollen from the stamens to the pistil of a flower.
What is pollination?
200
Provide an example of a non-vascular plant.
What is moss or algae?
200
Why might hydroponics be helpful for some people to use?
- It saves energy, water, time, money.
- Plants can grow up instead of spreading out.
- It does not use fossil fuels.
300
Tiny green cell structures that contain chlorophyll
What are chloroplasts?
300
The plant part where photosynthesis occurs.
What is the leaf?
300
_____________ can be spread in a few different ways. When they are spread, new plants can grow.
What are seeds?
300
Provide an example of a vascular plant.
What is a sunflower, tree, etc?
300
Growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid, with added nutrients but without soil.
What is hydroponics?
400
Green substance in plants that captures the energy in sunlight
What is chlorophyll?
400
The part of the plant that holds the leaves up to sunlight and moves, water, nutrients, and food through the plant.
What is the stem?
400
Seed-like structures that produce a new plant. (Not a seed)
What are spores?
400
Plants that do not have tubes. They suck up water and food from the soil like a sponge.
What are non-vascular plants?
400
A carrot is this part of the plant.
What is a root?
500
The recipe for photosynthesis:
____________ + _________________ +____________=
____________ +___________
What are water+ carbon dioxide + sunlight = sugar + oxygen?
500
The part of the plant that holds a plant in place and takes water and nutrients from the soil.
What is the roots?
500
The _______ attracts pollinators with its bright colors.
What is flower?
500
This type of plant has tubes that carry water from its roots to its leaves.
What is a vascular plant?
500
In order to survive, plants need 3 things. Name them.