Plant Families
These include Queen Anne's lace and parsley
What is the parsley family?
These trees lose their leaves each fall
What are deciduous trees?
What is a habitat?
The study of plants
What is botany?
Flowering seed plants
What are angiosperms?
Its members are called legumes
What is the pea family?
This is bushy top of a tree
What is the crown?
This type of root has many small roots that are close to the same size.
What is a fibrous root?
The study of living things
What is biology?
We tend to think of these for cooking, but botanists use the term for nonwoody plants
What are herbaceous plants or herbs?
Despite its name, this family contains not only delicious nuts, but also poisonous members
What is the cashew family?
This type of tree keeps its leaves all year round
What is an evergreen tree?
In the nitrogen cycle, this turns unused nitrates back into atmospheric nitrogen
What is denitrifying bacteria?
The study of animals
What is zoology?
This angiosperm has broad, flat leaves with branching veins and two cotyledons
What are dicots?
One of the largest families of angiosperms, the flowers in this family have disk and ray flowers
What is the composite family?
This group of trees is known for its distinctive fruits called samaras
What are maples?
A root system with a large main root growing straight down
What is the taproot system?
The study of structures in the human body
What is anatomy?
These plants include trees and shrubs, and live year after year
What are perennials?
The grass family's three most important cereal crops
What is wheat, corn, and rice?
This tree is America's largest deciduous tree
What is a sycamore tree?
This is a grass plant's creeping, above ground stem
What is a stolon?
The study of functions of the human body
What is physiology?
These plants develop over two growing seasons - its first year is to produce food and the second year to produce flowers
What are biennial plants?