Plant structures
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Porporri
100
The main supporting structure of the plant.
What is the stem?
100
It anchor a plant in the ground, absorb water and minerals from the soil, and sometimes store food.
What are roots?
100

This group of plants is classified as nonvascular.

What is Bryophyta (bryophytes)?

100

This underground root produces ferns.

What is a rhizome?

100

This word refers to tissues that conduct substances in a plant.

 What is vascular?

200

This vascular tissue transports water and minerals

What is xylem?

200

Two types of root systems

 What are taproot and fibrous root systems?

200


This classification group contains vascular plants that produce spores.

200

This odd name for a baby fern does not suggest that ferns are musical.

What is a fiddlehead?

200

This is the result of water filling the central vacuoles of plant cells.

What is turgor pressure?

300

This vascular tissue transports food

What is the phloem?

300

It captures the sun's energy and carry out the food-making process of photosynthesis.

What is a leaf?

300

This group of plants produces flowers and seeds that enclosed in a fruit.

What are angiosperms?

300

The leafy branch of a fern

What is a frond?

300

 When dead cork cells dry and split, we call it this.

What is bark?

400
What does the cuticle of a plant do?
Helps prevent water loss
400
This carries substances between the plant's roots and leaves.
What is a stem?
400

Most gymnosperms use what structures to store their seeds?

What are cones?

400

 

What member of Phylum Pterophyta was used by early American pioneers as a scrubbing brush for pots and pans?

400

Those are the two main stages of a plant's life cycle.

What are sporophyte and gametophyte?

500
Openings or pores in the leaves are called
Stoma/stomata
500

What are the four primary structures found in plants?

What are stems, leaves, roots, and flowers (also accept nodes)?

500

This group contains autotrophic organisms that are multicellular and contain plastids. 

What is Kingdom Plantae (Plant Kingdom)?

500

These structures on the underside of a fern leaf contain spores.

 What is a sorus (sori)?

500

 This part of a leaf is where most of the chloroplasts are located.

 What is the palisade layer