Trees
It has a single, tall, woody stem.
What is a tree?
To produce a new plant.
What is the purpose of a seed?
Name two edible roots.
What are carrots, beets, or radishes?
Count these to know the age of a tree.
What are the rings?
The only fruit or vegetable whose seeds grow on the outside.
What is the strawberry?
These trees lose their leaves.
What are deciduous trees?
A seed that is not growing.
What is a dormant seed?
This type of root has one central main root.
What is a taproot?
The new stem that grows from a seed or from the main stem.
What is the shoot?
The largest living thing on Earth.
What is the giant Redwood tree?
These trees have needles as their leaves.
What are evergreen trees?
The name of the baby plant inside each seed.
What is an embryo?
These tissues carry water and minerals up to the stem.
What are vascular tissues?
Where most of the new growth on the stem takes place.
What is the terminal bud?
This type of root steals nutrients from other plants.
What is a parasitic root?
These have "covered" seeds and reproduce with flowers, fruits, and seeds.
What are angiosperms?
To grow.
What is germinate?
This type of roots have small, spread-out roots.
What are fibrous roots?
The outer layer of the stem.
What is the epidermis?
An example of a root that steals nutrients from other plants.
What is Mistletoe?
These trees have broad leaves.
What are deciduous trees?
Another word for when a seed is scattered.
What is seed dispersal?
The purposes of the root.
What are anchoring the plant and providing nourishment for the plant from the soil?
The part of the stem that protects the plant.
What is the epidermis?
The name of the man who started crop rotation to rebuild the soil in the south.
George Washington Carver
These have "naked" seeds and have cones instead of flowers.
What are gymnosperms?
This is the food source for the embryo in a seed.
What is the cotyledon?
The purposes of the stem.
What are supporting the plant and acting as the transportation network for nutrients and water?
These trees keep their leaves.
What are evergreen trees?
These seeds have two cotyledon.
What are dicot seeds?
Tubes that take food from the leaves to the plant.
What are phloem?
Christmas trees are this type of tree.
What is evergreen tree?
Seeds need these three things to germinate.
What are water, oxygen, and warmth (W.O.W.)?
Tubes that take water and minerals up the plant.
What are xylem?
Ways that seeds travel to make plants.
Wind, water, animal droppings, animal fur, human movement. exploding seed pods