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The chemical process by which a plant produces food
What is photosynthesis?
Plants store sugar in their roots in the form of
What is starch?
Any growth response of a plant to a condition in its environment
What is tropism?
An especially large vein running up the middle of many leaves
What is a midrib?
The transfer of pollen from the stamen to the pistil
What is pollination?
The part of the seed that is a miniature undeveloped plant
What is the embryo?
The process in which an egg stored inside an ovule unites with a sperm cell from a grain of pollen
What is fertilization?
The noticeable part of the flower that attracts bees
What is the petal?
The pigment that gives a plant its green color
What is chlorophyll?
Geotropism is a plant's response to
What is gravity?
A colorful leaf surrounding certain flowers such as the dogwood and the poinsettia
What is the bract?
Studies plants
Who are botanists?
An underwater plant with hollow, bladderlike leaves filled with water
What is a bladderwort?
Wheat, rice, and corn are examples of these grasses
What are cereal grasses?
The plant with hinged leaves that close shut like the jaws of a steel trap
What is Venus's flytrap?
This system is the part of the plant that is above ground
What is the shoot system?
The bright colors and honey-scented nectar of this plant lure the insects that drown in its leaves
What is the pitcher plant?
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The sticky, glistening dew drops on this plant are the bait that attracts insects
What is the sundew?
Spanish moss is a type of
What is a epiphyte?
The pores on the underside of the leaf are called
What are stomata?
The ovary of the plant develops into
What is the fruit?
The part of the plant that grows below the ground is called the
What is the root stem?
The main function of this is to absorb water and minerals from the ground
What are the roots?
The waxy substance that coats the leaf is called the
What is cuticle?
The underground storehouse made with layers of thick, fleshy leaves that surround a very short stem
What is the bulb?
The structures that allow the stomata to open and close
What are the guard cells?
A seed that is alive but inactive
What is dormant?
The tough, fibrous material used to form the cell walls of plants
What is cellulose?
Where photosynthesis occurs
What is in the leaves of the plant?
"Packages" of chlorophyll found in leaf cells
What are chloroplasts?
The two conditions needed for a seed to sprout
What is moisture and warmth?
A particularly deep main root
What is a taproot?
The main function of this is to absorb water and minerals from the ground
What are the roots?
The layer of thick, protective cells at the tip of the root
What is the root cap?