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Plant Parts
Functions
Photosynthesis
Needs & Life Cycle
Seed to Plant
100
  • Question: This part of the plant anchors it in the ground and absorbs water and nutrients from the soil.
  • Answer: What are the roots?
100
  • Question: This is the job of the roots.
  • Answer: What is absorbing water and nutrients and anchoring the plant?
100
  • Question: Plants use energy from this to make their own food.
  • Answer: What is the sun/sunlight?
100
  • Question: Name three basic needs of a plant to survive.
  • Answer: What are light/sunlight, water, air, and nutrients/space?
100
  • Question: A seed needs water, the right temperature, and air to start this process, where the new plant breaks out of the seed coat.

Answer: What is germination

200
  • Question: This part holds the plant up and has tiny tubes that carry water and nutrients to the leaves.
  • Answer: What is the stem?
200
  • Question: This is the job of the stem's tube-like structures.
  • Answer: What is transporting water and nutrients throughout the plant?
200
  • Question: Plants take in this gas from the air through tiny holes in their leaves.
  • Answer: What is carbon dioxide?
200
  • Question: The tiny openings on the bottom of leaves that let air in and out are called this.

Answer: What are stomata

200
  • Question: This is the name for the tiny, young plant that is still inside the seed before it starts growing on its own.

Answer: What is an embryo?

300
  • Question: This green part of the plant captures sunlight to make food.
  • Answer: What is a leaf/leaves?
300
  • Question: This is the main function of the leaves.
  • Answer: What is making food for the plant (photosynthesis)?
300
  • Question: This green material in the leaves captures sunlight energy.
  • Answer: What is chlorophyll?
300
  • Question: After a flower is pollinated, it can develop this, which helps spread seeds.
  • Answer: What is a fruit?
300
  • Question: Before the young plant can make its own food using sunlight, it uses this stored energy inside the seed.
  • Answer: What is the food stored in the seed/cotyledon? 
400
  • Question: This part of the plant contains the reproductive parts and attracts pollinators like bees and butterflies.
  • Answer: What is the flower?
400
  • Question: The bright colors and scent of a flower help it perform this function.
  • Answer: What is attracting pollinators (for reproduction)?
400
  • Question: This is the sugary food plants make during photosynthesis.
  • Answer: What is glucose/sugar?
400
  • Question: Explain the difference between a producer and a consumer.
  • Answer: What is a producer makes its own food (plants) and a consumer eats other living things?
400
  • Question: This is the correct order for the four main stages of a plant's life cycle.

Answer: What are seed, seedling, mature plant/flower, and fruit

500
  • Question: You might find this plant part in an apple or an acorn; it can grow into a new plant.
  • Answer: What is a seed?
500
  • Question: Seeds have this important job.
  • Answer: What is creating new plants/reproduction?
500
  • Question: This is the waste product plants release into the air for us to breathe.
  • Answer: What is oxygen?
500
  • Question: Name three ways seeds can be dispersed (spread to new places).
  • Answer: What are by wind, by animals (eating or hitchhiking on fur), or by water?
500
  • Question: Once a tiny plant has sprouted its first set of true leaves and can make its own food, it is called this.

Answer: What is a seedling?