Seeds & Angiosperms
A baby plant in a protective covering
What is a seed or embryo?
A fruit is a container for seeds, a vegetable is an edible part of a plant that does not contain seeds
This part of the leaf takes in air and helps to make food the plant needs.
What is a stomata?
The term for uncovered seed
What is gymnosperm?
The leafy blade of a fern, or a fern leaf
What is a frond?
A seed container
What is an angiosperm?
Name three things that attract insects to flowers
What are smell, color, and patterns (nectar guides)?
Name the three main jobs of roots
What are absorbing nutrients and water from the soil, holding the plant in place as an anchor, and preventing erosion?
How can you tell by looking at a tree's branch, how much a tree has grown?
Marks along the twig (scars)
What is water?
Three things a seed needs to wake up and begin growing
What are warmth, water, and air?
Name three mammals that pollinate plants
What are bats, lemurs, and flying fox (rodents)?
These chemicals enable a plant to grow toward the light, a process called what?
What are auxins...phototropism?
Name three important uses for trees
What are shade, food, healthy air, shelter, beauty, animal homes?
What is diffusion?
What are the carpel and the stamen?
Name three types of pollination
What are bees/butterflies, wind, animals, and/or self?
Name the two parts of the plant in the vascular bundle and what they do.
What is xylem (send water from roots to plant) and phloem (send sugary food down from leaves to plant)?
Why would words carved in a tree trunk remain the same location many years later?
A tree grows taller by adding length to its branches. Tree trunks grow thicker, not taller.
What are fungi and algae?
The biggest part of the embryo that provide food once the seed opens
Why does a flower petal dry up and fall off after it has been pollinated?
It has finished attracting pollinators, can spend its energy manufacturing seeds, and gives other flowers a chance to be pollinated.
Name the four things needed for plants to make food, what food the plant makes, and what the process is called.
What are water, carbon dioxide, light, and chlorophyll; sugar; photosynthesis?
Name the four types of forests.
What are boreal, tropical rainforest, temperate deciduous, and temperate coniferous?
Name three uses for lichens.
What are insect and bird homes, clean air to breathe, food for animals, dye for fabrics, medicines and poison arrowheads?