Plant Tissues
The tissue that transports water and dissolved minerals upward.
What is the xylem?
The root system with small branching roots.
What is a fibrous root system?
The leaves, flowers, and stems of the plant are considered part of this overall system.
Trees that lose their leaves each fall.
What are deciduous trees?
The overall product of the photosynthetic process.
What are Oxygen and Glucose?
The two types of meristematic tissue.
What are Vascular Cambium and Cork Cambium?
The harvested and used portion of the carrot plant is actually this part of the plant.
What is the root (taproot)?
The name given for a leaf that lacks a petiole.
What is sessile?
The outer layer of the composite family flowers often mistaken for the petals of the flower.
What are the ray flowers?
The light reaction of photosynthesis produces these specific compounds which are used to fuel the dark cycle.
The tissue found on the outside of plants used to protect and cover plant parts.
What is Epidermal Tissue?
This stem system allows plants to climb and can be woody or herbaceous.
What is a vine?
The four types of leaf arrangements.
What are whorled, opposite, alternate, and rosette?
The angiosperm family that has poisonous members.
What is the cashew family?
The bacteria that converts nitrogen back to the atmosphere.
What are denitrifying bacteria?
The storage structure in cells.
What is a vacuole?
The type of root found in dicot plants.
What is a taproot?
The three primary leaf shapes.
What are broad and flat, long and narrow, and needle like?
The largest deciduous tree in America.
What is the Sycamore tree?
The reverse process to photosynthesis.
What is cellular respiration?
The pressure produced by water within the cells.
What is turgor pressure?
Daffodils posses this stem type.
What is an herbaceous stem?
What is transpiration (evapotranspiration)?
The three most important cereal grasses.
What are wheat, corn, and rice?
The chemical equation for photosynthesis.
What is 6CO2 + 6H2O -> 6O2 + C6H12O6?