Classifying Plants
Parts of Plants
Identifying Leaves
Flowers
Misc.
100
___________ have soft stem. They are thin and flexible and are usually short.
Grasses
100
What are the three parts of a plant?
Leaves, stems, and roots.
100
Leaves have two parts. What are they? Draw a picture and label them.
They have a stalk and a blade.
100
Where are the reproductive organs of a plant? What do the organs do?
They are inside the flower. These organs make seeds that grow into new plants.
100
___________ has lots of long branches. These branches have thorns. In the spring the ___________ has small pale pink flowers. In the summer it gives us__________.
Blackberry Bush
200
____________ have a thick, hard stem with low branches. They are taller than grasses and live longer.
Bushes
200
What does the stem do?
Stems carry water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant. They also support the plant.
200
Identify the leaf
Dentate
200
__________ are small green leaves that protect the flower before it opens.
Sepals
200
What are four things plants give us?
They give us vitamins and minerals. They also give us oxygen and medicine.
300
___________ have a thick, hard stem called a trunk. They are the tallest plants and have high branches. They can live for hundreds of years.
Trees
300
What are leaves? Describe the leaves of deciduous trees and evergreen trees.
Leaves grow from the stems or branches. Leaves use sunlight to help make their own food. Deciduous trees lose all their leaves in autumn Evergreen trees produce new leaves all year
300
Identify the leaf
Palmate
300
What are the petals?
Petals cab be many different colours. They attract insects to the flower.
300
What are three things we get from trees?
Wood from trees gives us heat and shelter, we also make paper from trees.
400
____________ they are evergreens. Their trunks are tall and straight. They have fir cones.
Fir Trees
400
What are roots? What are their two functions?
Roots are the part of the plant that is underground. Roots have two functions: They absorb water and minerals that the plant needs to grow. They fix the plant into the ground
400
Identify the leaves.
Sinuate and serrate
400
What are stamens? What is pollen?
Stamens have pollen at their ends. Insects take pollen to other flowers. Pollen is a powder which flowers produce.
400
____________ is a special plant. It makes its own food like all other plants, but it also catches insects and spiders and eats them for extra food.
Venus Fly Trap
500
___________ has a long stem and many kernels at the end of each stem.
Wheat
500
What do all tree trunks have inside? What does each one mean?
All tree trunks have rings inside. They have one dark ring for each year of the tree´s life.
500
Why do leaves have different shapes? What are the 6 different types?
They have different margins. There are many types of margins including entire, dentate, serrate, sinuate, lobed and palmate.
500
What is the carpel? What gender is it?
The carpel is the part of the flower where the seeds develop. It grows into a fruit, which has seeds inside. When the fruit falls to the ground, a new plant can grow from the seed. Female
500
Name the 7 parts of the life cycle of a plant in order.
1. Most seeds need warmth, water, sunlight and air to germinate. 2. Roots grow down from the seed. 3. A stem grows up. 4. Leaves grow on the stem. The plant can now make its own food. 5. A flower grows on the plant. 6. Seeds develop in the carpel. 7. The plant dies, but new plants can grow from its seeds.
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