Benefits, Functions, and Structures

Basic Benefits

100

This is the science and art of flowers, fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants

Horticulture

200

This value is described as adding benefits that are pleasing in appearance; beauty

Aesthetic Value

300

This horticulture value impacts the air, water, minerals, organisms and other biotic factors in their surroundings.

Environmental

400

This value refers to the process in which goods and services are produced, sold and bought

Economic value

500

This type of plant within 'Aesthetic Horticulture' provides shade and is considered a large-scale windbreaker

Tree

Fun Functions

100

This is the major site of food production in the plant

Leaves

200

This part of the flower is responsible for supporting the plant and is mainly used for transporting nutrients and food throughout the plant

Stem

300

This part of the plant is responsible for absorbing nutrients and water from the ground, and also anchoring the plant.

Root

400

The main function of this part of the plant is to attract pollinators for reproduction

Flower

500

There are two main types of root systems - Name them

Taproot and Fibrous

Flower Part-y

100

The male reproductive part of the plant is called the ________.

Stamen

200

The female part of the plant is called the ___________.

Pistil

300

This part of the flower is where pollen production occurs

Anther

400

This will mature to become fruit

Ovary

500

The food storage organ of the seed is called the  _____________.

Endosperm

Veins, Shapes, & Margins OH MY

100

This leaf venation is described as having multiple 'main veins' that all stem off from a central point or node

Palmate

200

This leaf attachment is defined as having 3 or more leaflets per node

Whorled

300

This leaf shape is described as being thin at the base of the leaf AND at the apex point, but larger in the middle.

Lanceolate

400

This leaf margin is described as having deep incisions that extend inward toward the midrib.

Lobed

500

Name the three 'toothed' leaf margins

Crenate, Dentate, and Serrate

Misc

100

This is the cell organelle where photosynthesis takes place and where chlorophyll is located

Chloroplast

200

defined as 'Seed Leaf'

Cotyledon

300

Small leaf-like appendage at the base of the leaf petiole where it meets the stem

Stipule

400

A plant embryo with two Cotyledons

Dicot

500

This is the part of the stem that transports water from the roots to the rest of the plant.

Xylem