Fruits and Leaves
What are plants that steal nutrients from other plants?
Parasitic
When pollen goes from a stamen to a carpel on the same flower.
self-pollination
True or False. Angiosperms do not grow most of the food we eat.
False.
When a seed is sleeping it is called?
dormant
What is the study of plants?
Botany
When plants die in winter and come back in the spring.
deciduous
What is the butterfly's curly straw it uses to collect nectar called?
Proboscis
When living things depend on each other for survival. It is called what?
Symbiosis
What is the seeds coat called?
Testa
Plants with and without tubes are called what?
Vascular and Nonvascular
The process of plants making their own food using sunlight.
photosynthesis
What are special designs that point insects to the center of the flower called?
nectar guides
What is the study of the different parts of a living thing?
anatomy
What is the seeds belly button called?
Hilum
Biologists have separated living things into different groups called kingdoms. Name 3 of those kingdoms.
Plantae, Fungi, animalia
Name 5 ways seeds can be dispersed.
Humans, animals, wind, water, and mechanical (machines)
Name at least 2 plants that are self-pollinating.
wheat, barley, rice, oat, beans, peas, soybeans, peanuts, eggplant, lettuce, peppers, and tomatoes
What flower is called a ray flower?
sunflowers
What is the simple process of a seed sprouting into a plant?
germination
True or False. For thousands of years, herbs have been used for healing.
True
Name the 2 main groups of leaves.
simple leaf, compound leaf
bees, butterflies, moths, wasps, ants, flies, beetles
Name 2 carnivorous plants that we have read about from lesson 3.
Venus flytrap, Bladderwort, Sundews, Pitcher Plant
If the veins branch out from a thick vein running down the middle of the leaf, is the plant a monocot or dicot?
dicot. monocot veins from the bottom to the top of the leaf in a straight line.
What are seed-making plants?
Spermatophyta