Leaves
The chemical process in which plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Special leaves are also referred to as this other name.
What is a modified leaf?
The main root that grows really deep.
What is a taproot?
This system is the part of the plant that is above the ground.
What is the shoot system?
Any growth response of a plant to a condition in its environment.
What are tropisms?
Air enters the leaf through these holes or pores.
Vines cling to objects by using special leaves that are like hands and can coil around an object.
What are tendrils?
The part of the plant that grows below the ground.
What is the root system?
This material forms a strong cell wall around the membrane of each plant cell and helps to strengthen the stem.
What is cellulose?
The plant's response to gravity.
The pigment or coloring that makes plants green.
What is chlorophyll?
Another name for plants that eat insects.
What is insectivorous?
The layer of thick, protective cells at the tip of the root.
What is the root cap?
A stem that grows along the surface of the ground, is also called a runner.
What is a stolon?
The plant's response to touch.
What is thigmotropism?
Hydrogen is combined with carbon dioxide from the air to form this type of sugar that the plant needs to live.
What is glucose?
An insectivorous plant that traps its food using sticky drops.
What is the sundew?
Plants store sugar in the roots in this form.
What is starch?
These are protective stems much like leaf spines.
What are thorns?
A plant's response to light.
What is phototropism?
The three main parts of leaf anatomy that we discussed in class are...?
What are veins, midrib, and the stem?
An example of a plant that has leaves grow below the ground and form a bulb.
What is an onion?
The main function of the roots is to absorb _________ and __________ from the ground.
What is water and minerals?
Water and minerals run _______ the stem, dissolved food flows ________.
What is up and down?
A plant's response to water.
What is hydrotropism?