Roots
Growth spurt
growing strong
store house
Geophytes
100
A structure of tough cells that covers the tip of a root and protects the root from injury
What is a root cap?
100
A _____________ has the same DNA as the parent.
What is a clone?
100
Chemicals in plants that affect how they grow
What are auxins?
100
Bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes are all ______________
What are geophytes?
100
A type of underground stem that stores extra food and branches out horizontally
What is a rhizome?
200
A type of root that has a large, central, and dominant root from which smaller roots sprout
What is a taproot?
200
Roots grow ______________ by adding cells to their root bodies
What is fatter? (Will accept a synonym for fatter)
200
The sickly appearance of a plant caused by the plant being moved from its original location and root hairs being damaged
What is transplant shock?
200
One of the main differences between bulbs and corms is that bulbs have layers of special _______________, whereas corms are solid.
What are leaves?
200
An underground storage house that has layers of a special kind of storage leaf
What is a bulb?
300
Fine parts of the root that do most of the work in absorbing water and nutrients
What are root hairs?
300
Certain plants can be ______________ by taking a cutting and putting it into water until roots begin to grow. Plants grown by this method are called
What is rooted?
300
In a rain forest, you will often find plants growing right on the trees. This is because their roots can absorb water from the ____________
What is air?
300
Geophytes have all of the _______ a plant needs to grow it’s roots and stems
What are nutrients?
300
A type of swollen underground stem that stores starch and can sprout roots and stems from it’s buds / eyes.
What is a tuber?
400
A type of root that is made up of a series of roots growing in many directions
What is a fibrous root?
400
“Forcing a bulb” means tricking it into thinking that it is time to ____________, even though it may actually be wintertime.
What is bloom?
400
A plant's response to earth's gravity which causes it’s roots to turn downward toward and into the ground.
What is geotropism?
400
On the International Space Station, the roots of plants in the Botany Science Lab some-times grow in the same direction as the stems. This is because plants have a sense called _______________
What is geotropism?
400
A type of underground food storage stem that is solid and grows roots from the bottom
What is a corm?
500
Most plants with fibrous root systems are _______________
What are monocots?
500
A banyan tree’s incredibly long roots not only absorb water and nutrients, they also help _________________it's long branches
What is support?
500
Most plants with taproot systems are ___________
What are dicots?
500
When there is not enough vegetation to hold soil in place, wind and rain can blow it away. This loss of soil is called ____________
What is erosion?
500
This geophyte is a _______________ (bulb, corm, tuber, or rhizome)
What is a rhizome?