Short Answer
photosynthesis stores and respiration releases ______
What is energy?
anything in the environment that produces a response
What is a stimulus?
The form of energy plants use to make food.
What is sunlight?
a plant bending or curving toward or away from a stimulus
What is tropism?
tissue through which food from the leaves moves down through the plant
What is the phloem?
layer just inside the epidermis of the roots and stems - it stores food
What is the cortex?
Sunlight, water, minerals, and carbon dioxide are used by plants to make food. Plant cells do this in parts called.
What are chloroplasts?
when water evaporates from the leaves, more water moves up through the plant to replace the lost water
What is transpiration?
Holds the transportation system for plants? (part of the plant)
What is the stem?
photosynthesis
What is the food-making process in plants?
Plants need water to live and grow, but too much water could be harmful. What might happen to a plant in a flooded area?
The roots of a plant in a flooded area may not be able to anchor plants in soft, muddy soil. The leaves, stems, and roots of a plant could rot.
outermost layer of the root, stem or leaf (skin)
What is the epidermis?
Two ways in which all stems are similar.
All stems support leaves and hold the transportation system of the plant.
small hairs (like on your head) that came out from the roots
What are root hairs?
Adaptations that help plants survive water shortage. (3)
What is storing water in the stems, waxy coating, and roots absorb water quickly?
Something that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
Functions of the roots. (3)
1. keep plants anchored in the ground
2. draw up water and minerals from the soil
3. store food for the plant
tissue through which water and minerals move up through the plant
What is the xylem?
Functions of the stem. (4)
1. supports the leaves
2. help leaves reach open spaces and sunlight
3. transportation system (water and food)
4. stores food
layer that separates the xylem from the phloem
What is the cambium?