Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)
Plants that produce flowers and seeds inside fruit.
What are angiosperms?
Plants that trap and digest insects for nutrients.
What are carnivorous plants?
The movement of pollen from stamen to pistil.
What is pollination?
Pollination within the same flower.
What is self-pollination?
A fruit with one large pit, like a peach.
What is a drupe?
The scattering of seeds away from the parent plant.
What is seed dispersal?
Tiny openings on leaves used for gas exchange.
What are stomata?
A leaf with one single blade.
What is a simple leaf?
The edge of a leaf.
What is a leaf margin?
A dry fruit like wheat or corn.
What is a grain?
The reproductive structure of an angiosperm.
What is a flower?
These plants usually live in soil that lacks this important nutrient.
What is nitrogen?
The powdery substance moved during pollination.
What is pollen?
Pollination between two different plants of the same species.
What is cross-pollination?
A fruit like an apple with a core.
What is a pome?
Seeds carried by breezes, like dandelions.
What is wind dispersal?
The process by which plants make food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
A leaf made of several leaflets.
What is a compound leaf?
A leaf edge that looks like tiny teeth.
What is a serrated margin?
A fruit that splits along two sides, like a bean.
What is a legume?
The structure that protects and surrounds seeds in angiosperms.
What is a fruit?
This plant snaps shut when trigger hairs are touched.
What is a Venus flytrap?
The sticky top of the pistil where pollen lands.
What is the stigma?
This type of pollination increases genetic diversity.
What is cross-pollination?
A citrus fruit with a leathery rind.
What is a hesperidium?
Seeds spread when animals eat fruit and later drop the seeds.
What is animal dispersal?
The gas plants take in during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
The main vein running down the center of a leaf.
What is the midrib?
The reason leaves change color in fall.
What is chlorophyll breaking down?
A dry fruit that opens to release seeds, like a poppy.
What is a capsule?
The male part of a flower that produces pollen.
What is the stamen?
This tube-shaped plant traps insects in a deep pool of liquid.
What is a pitcher plant?
The joining of sperm and egg cells in plants.
What is fertilization?
This type of pollination relies on air currents.
What is wind pollination?
A fruit with a thick rind like watermelon.
What is a pepo?
Seeds that hook onto fur using tiny barbs.
What is burr (Velcro) dispersal?
The green pigment that captures sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
The pattern of how leaves grow on a stem.
What is leaf arrangement?
Trees that lose their leaves each year.
What are deciduous trees?
A small dry fruit with one seed that doesn’t open, like a sunflower seed.
What is an achene?
The female part of a flower that contains the ovary.
What is the pistil?
The reason carnivorous plants still perform photosynthesis.
What is to make their own food (glucose)?
A common insect pollinator that collects nectar.
What is a bee?
This type of pollination depends on animals like bees or butterflies.
What is animal pollination?
The flower part that develops into fruit.
What is the ovary?
When seed pods burst open and shoot seeds away.
What is mechanical dispersal?
The loss of water vapor from leaves.
What is transpiration?
Leaves that grow across from each other on a stem.
What is opposite arrangement?
The purpose of veins in a leaf.
What is to transport water and nutrients?
A hard-shelled fruit with one seed inside, like an acorn.
What is a nut?