Functions
Parts
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Vocab
Different Types
100
This part of the plant holds the plant in the ground. It, also, collects water and minerals and stores food.
What is the root's function?
100
flower, stem, roots, leaves
Name the 4 parts of a plant.
100
This is the remains or mark of a living thing from long ago.
What is a fossil?
100
to grow
What does germinate mean?
100
A tree that loses and grows leaves.
What is a deciduous tree?
200
This part of the plant transports water, minerals, and food.
What is the stem's function?
200
The thick waxy covering helps it from losing too much water.
How does the stem protect the plant?
200
A plant was pressed into mud. The mud became rock.
How is a fossil formed?
200
It protects the seed.
What does the seed coat do?
200
A tree that grows cones instead of flowers to make their seeds.
What is a coniferous tree?
300
This part of the plant makes sugar.
What is the leaves function?
300
They carry water and minerals from the roots to other parts of the plant.
What are the plant's tubes?
300
They found plant fossils.
How do scientists know about extinct plants?
300
A large root that grows deep into the soil.
What is a taproot?
300
By animals, wind, water, and humans.
How do seeds scatter?
400
This part of the plant makes seeds after it is pollinated.
What is the flower's function?
400
This part stores food for the seed.
What does the seed leaf do for the seed?
400
Many kind of plants that lived long ago are no longer alive.
What does extinct mean?
400
This consists of parts that work together.
What is a system?
400
Bees, other animals, or wind do this to a flower when they move pollen to the flower part that makes seeds.
What does pollinate mean?
500
Water travels to the leaves. There carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight make sugar. As sugar is being made, oxygen leaves the leaf.
How is sugar made?
500
A seed starts to grow into this small plant.
What is a seedling?
500
They did not have flowers or cones.
How are extinct plants different from plants today?
500
Thin stems that grow along the surface of the ground. These stems can grow roots and a new plant.
What is a stolon?
500
They both make seeds.
What do cones and flowers make?
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