Plants
These grow underground. They act like anchors to hold the plant in place and drink up water and nutrients from the soil. Some store food for the plant.
What are roots?
Protective packages that hold the seeds. Animals (and people!) eat these, which helps to spread the seeds to new places.
What is fruit?
How plants make new seeds to grow baby plants. It happens when tiny yellow dust called pollen moves from the male part of a flower to the female part.
What is pollination?
These types of plants live for only one growing season. They sprout from a seed, grow big, make flowers and seeds, and then die when the cold weather comes. To have them again next year, you must plant new seeds.
What are annuals?
The process where a seed wakes up from its sleep and starts to grow into a new plant.
What is germination?
The plant's backbone. It holds the plant up tall so leaves can reach the sun. It also acts like a straw, carrying water from the roots up to the leaves and food down to the rest of the plant.
What is a stem?
Carries sugar produced in the leaves to other parts of the plant. It's like plant food delivery pipes! Can carry food both UP and DOWN the plant.
What is phloem?
A flower uses its own pollen to make seeds. This is like a plant cloning itself.
What is self-pollination?
These take two years to finish their life.
What are biannuals?
A huge area on Earth where the plants, animals, and weather are all similar. Think of it as a giant neighborhood for nature.
What is a biome?
The plant's food factories! They use sunlight, air, and water to make food for the plant in a process called photosynthesis. This is why most are green.
What are leaves?
Carries water UP from the roots to the leaves. Another plant delivery pipe, but only for water.
What is xylem?
Pollen travels from one flower to a different flower on another plant. This is very common and helps make new plants stronger and healthier because it mixes instructions from two different parents.
What is cross-pollination?
These live for many years (more than two). They might lose their leaves or die back to the ground in the winter, but their roots stay alive underground. When spring comes, they grow back from the same roots without needing to be replanted.
What are perrenials?
Name 3 different biomes.
Desert, rainforest, grassland, forest, tundra, aquatic.
A small package containing all the nutrients necessary to grow a baby plant. Plants produce several of these, and each one can turn into a new plant.
What is a seed?
The green pigment in plants that acts like a solar panel. It captures energy from sunlight so the plant can make its own food. This pigment is located in the chloroplasts of the plant cells.
What is chlorophyll?
Since plants cannot walk, they need help moving their pollen. This is what these helpers are called.
What are pollinators?
Name 3 things plants need to accomplish photosynthesis.
Water, sunlight, carbon dioxide.
Using the energy from sunlight, the plant mixes the water and carbon dioxide to create sugar (glucose), which is the plant's food. As a bonus, the plant releases oxygen into the air, which is what humans and animals need to breathe!
The colorful part that helps the plant make new baby plants. They attract bees and butterflies to move pollen around so seeds can grow.
What are flowers?
The process plants use to make their own food. It happens inside the chloroplasts of plant cells.
What is photosynthesis?
Name two types of pollinators.
Bees, butterflies, birds, and bats. Wind and water.