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Botany is the study of _____.
Plants
We say that seeds are often dormant. What does dormant mean?
Sleeping
What is a nocturnal animal?
An animal that sleeps during the day, and comes out at night.
ex. Bat, moth
True or false:
A carrot is a fruit.
False, a carrot is a vegetable.
On the bottom side of a leaf, there are many stomata. What is a stomata?
The leaf’s mouths.
Name 3 things a Nature Journal entry should have.
Name, Date, Time, Location, Weather.
Inside every seed is a baby plant. What is the name for that baby?
hint: this is also what we would call a human baby inside the mothers womb.
Embryo.
Name 2 pollinating animals.
Bee, butterfly, moth, bird, hummingbird, ants, flies, lizards..
True or false:
A squash is a fruit.
True. It comes from a pollinated flower and contains seeds.
photosynthesis is the process by which a plant _______________.
Makes its own food.
Plants with tubes running throughout them are called ______ plants.
Vascular
What do we call the seeds shell?
It protects the seed.
The coat or testa.
What is something else, other than animals, that could pollinate a flower?
Wind, rain
True or false:
A strawberry is NOT a berry.
True. A strawberry is actually a Achene.
A plants stomata takes in carbon dioxide, and expels, or lets out what?
Oxygen.
Plants WITHOUT tubes running through them are called _____ plants.
Nonvascular
Plants are NOT consumers. They are ______.
Producers
Everything that grows from a pollinated flower, and has seeds is called a ______.
Fruit.
True or false:
A Peanut is a vegetable.
False! Peanuts are a fruit.
Just like you have arteries and veins, a plant has 2 different kinds of tubes that carry liquid, xylem and phloem.
Which type of tube flows the sugary food DOWN the plant?
Phloem flows the food down.
Those vascular tubes are also called_____.
(Humans also have these running throughout their bodies)
Veins
Being producers, this means that plants make ____________________.
Their own food.
A vegetable is any part of an edible plant that does NOT have _____.
Seeds
True or false:
Corn is a vegetable.
False. Corn is a fruit!
Explain phototropism.
Phototropism is when a plant will turn and reach for the light.