How leaves work
Special Leaves
Special Leaves
Roots
Stems
100
The chemical process by which plants produce food.
What is photosynthesis?
100
This connects the leaf to the plant.
What is a stem?
100
A Plant that have unusual leaves that can trap and digest small insects.
What is a Venus fly trap?
100
A layer of thick protective cells (hard hat) covering the end of a growing root.
What is root cap?
100
A plant's response to light. Following the sun
What is phototropism?
200
The pores on the underside of a leaf that open and close to maintain hydration.
What is stoma or stomata?
200
Spread outward from the stem and across the leaf like pipes serving both to transport liquid and to reinforce the structure of the leaf.
What is veins?
200
leaves arranged in three's attached to the stem - no petiole
What is whorled?
200
A plant that sends one main root particularly deep into the soil.
What is taproot?
200
A plants response to water. following the water
What is hydrotropism?
300
The pigment or coloring that makes plants green.
What is chlorophyll?
300
Runs straight up the middle of the leaf.
What is midrib?
300
leaf shaped like the end of a spear
What is lanceolate?
300
Tiny root projections near the end of the root. Finding water and minerals for the plant.
What is root hairs?
300
Iris's have this specialized stem with scalelike leaf at each node.
What a rhizome ?
400
The food Fruit (sugar) plants produce to live.
What is fructose?
400
venation shaped like a pine tree
What is pinnate?
400
name the leaflet shape
What is palmately compound?
400
Grasses, corn and alfalfa have this root system.
What is fibrous?
400
A strong cell wall that surrounds the membrane of each plant made up of "plant fiber."
What is cellulose?
500
Tiny package of chlorophyll within a plants cell.
What is chloroplasts?
500
veins, midrib, and petiole.
Name the three parts of the leaf.
500
Plants that climb upwards as the grow by clinging to tall objects such as walls or trees through the use of tendrils.
What is vines?
500
stem storage of extra sugar and nutrients but found undereground
What is tuber?
500
The upper part of the stem or tip of the stem
What is apical meristem?