Structures of Plants
This part of a plant helps keep the plant firmly in the ground.
What is the roots?
Air, water, soil: out of these three, which does a plant require the least to grow?
What is the soil?
These parts of a plant move up and away from the soil.
What is the stem and leaves?
The ability to perform work of change an object
What is energy?
All living things have a life cycle.
What is true?
This part of a plant acts like an "elevator" moving water and food up and down and throughout the plant
What is the stem?
Some plants are grown in pots with water and no soil. True or false: plants do not need soil to grow.
What is true?
This part of a plant moves down into the ground.
What are the roots?
The loss of water through a plants leaves.
What is transpiration?
A plant makes it own food by combining water and air only.
What is False. A plant combines water, air, and sunlight to makes its food.
A plant's food supply is created in this part of a plant
What are the leaves?
Fill in the blank:
carbon dioxide + water + ______ -> sugar + oxygen
What is energy?
In some plants, leaves face east towards the sun in the morning and as the sun moves throughout the day, the leaves face west in the evening. Why does this happen?
What is because some plants respond to light by growing towards it?
The food making process in green plants that use sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
A plant could survive without roots and a stem.
What is False. A plant needs roots and a stem to get water and nutrients.
This part of the plant takes water and nutrients from the soil and sends it to other parts of the plant
What are the roots?
Air, sunlight, water, nutrients, and space are all ________.
What are plants basic needs?
Why do plants need light?
What is light provides the energy a plant needs to grow and make food.
The tissue that moves food throughout the plant.
What is the phloem?
The only way a root helps a plant live and grow is by taking in water and nutrients from the soil.
What is false. Roots help the plant stand upright.
In the stem, this part of a plant helps moves water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves.
What is the xylem?
As a plant grows it gains mass, the ________ taken in during photosynthesis causes the plants to grow.
What is air or carbon dioxide?
A reaction or movement of a plant towards or away from something in its environment.
What is plant tropism?
A green chemical in plant cells that allows plants to use the Sun's energy to make food.
What is chlorophyll?
Stems and leaves grow towards sunlight only because they are afraid of the dark.
What is stems and leaves grow towards sunlight because sunlight provides the plant with energy it needs to make food.