Plants
Root system and shoot system
What are the systems in a plant?
A group of tissues working together for a particular job.
What is an organ system?
Store food that humans can eat.
What is a food storage taproot?
I am taller than the Statue of Liberty.
What is a Redwood tree?
The flower produces this.
What is a fruit or vegetable?
How many organs make up the root system?
What is 1 organ in the root system?
A tissue that does a particular job.
What is an organ?
Increases surface area of the root.
What are root hairs?
I am in southern Oregon and go to central California.
What is the Redwood Forest?
The stem, leaf, and the flower
What are the organs in the shoot system?
The two different types of roots in plants.
What are taproots and fibrous roots?
My roots climb down the tree and root into the ground. I choke the tree and kill it. My roots then become solid, strong and permanent.
What is a strangler fig?
My base can be 24 feet wide.
What is the Redwood forest?
I contain all the female reproductive organs in a flower.
What is the pistil?
A plant that grows back every year.
What is a perennial?
The part of the plant that transports water and contains the phloem and xylem.
What is the vascular cylinder?
Sends water and nutrients up to the leaves to be used for photosynthesis.
What is the xylem?
What is the cortex?
I have both the anther and filament.
What is the stamen?
A plant that has to be planted every year.
What is an annual?
The part of the plant that makes pollen.
What is the anther?
I am between the root hairs and the cortex.
What is the epidermis?
I can be a radish, turnip, carrot or beet.
What is a food-storing taproot?
I am the leaves that protect the bud of a flower.
What is the sepal?