Vocabulary
The chemical process by which green plants produce food.
Photosynthesis
What are the colorful leaves some flowers produce that may be mistaken for petals?
Bracts
Makes food for the plant
Leaves
After this plant attracts insects with its honelike nectar, the insects slip into its pitcher-shaped leaf where they are digested.
Pitcher Plant
The only eastern pine with needles in bundles of five; once used for construction of buildings and sailing ships.
Eastern White Pine
Tiny holes or pores in a leaf through which air enters.
Stomata
What is the long tube in the middle of the flower that has the ovary at its base?
Pistil
Carries liquids from roots to leaves and back
Stem
This is the most important family of food-producing plants, with long, thin leaves and very small flowers.
Grasses
Ponderosa Pine
The pigment or coloring that makes plants green and is necessary for photosynthesis to occur.
Chlorophyll
What do we call the process when a sperm cell unites with an egg cell?
Fertilization
Transport liquids; reinforce the structure of the thin, fragile leaf
Veins
Often called legumes, this is the second largest family of flowering plants.
Pea Family
An attractive ornamental tree with frosty blue needles.
Blue Spruce
A type of sugar, the food plants need in order to live.
Glucose
What is the transfer of pollen from a stamen to the pistil?
Pollination
Absorb water and minerals for the plant's use; anchor the plant in the soil
Roots
Most of the members of this family grow from bulbs; their petals grow in multiples of three.
Lily Family
A deciduous conifer with needles that turn deep gold before falling to the ground.
Larch or Tamarack
Guard Cells
What is the living, miniature, undeveloped plant that is within the seed?
Embryo
Make and hold pollen
Stamens
This colorful and fruitful plant family has petals in multiples of five.
Rose Family
A deciduous conifer growing in swamps of the South; projecting portions of its roots are called knees.