Stems 1
Plants with hard stems
What are woody plants?
The Four main Jobs of Roots
What are Anchoring the plant, absorbing water and nutrients, and storing extra food?
A new stem that grows from the seed or off of the main stem
What is a shoot?
Wet areas
Where are you most likely to find prop roots
The tubes that take the food from the leaves to the rest of the plant
What are phloem?
Plants with bendable stems
What are herbaceous plants?
A root system where the roots spread out in many different directions
What is a fibrous root system?
a bud that is at the end of the stem
What is a terminal bud?
Roots that grow in the air instead of the ground
What are aerial roots?
the tubes in a stem that take water and minerals up the plant
What are xylem?
Special stems that store food
What are bulbs or tubers?
What is a taproot?
Buds along the side of the stem
What is a later bud?
(or: What is a axillary bud?)
Roots that grow in unusual places or unusual ways
What are adventitious roots?
The outer layer of the stem on young plants
What is the epidermis?
special stems that protect the plant from animals
(can also be worded: stems with a method of protection)
What are thorns?
Where you are most likely to find taproots?
The point where a leaf grows on a stem
What is a node?
Small shoots that come out from parasitic roots and steal nutrients from other plants
What are Haustoria?
The very top layer of the epidermis
What is the cuticle?
Stems that grab onto trellises, fences, buildings, and anything else around
What are tendrils
The protective bit at the end of a root
What is a root cap?
The area of the stem between two nodes
What is an internode?
Roots that grow out or up from the sides of a plant
What are pneumatophores?
special cells inside the epidermis
What are cambium cells?