The main job of this plant structure is to take in water and nutrients from the soil
a. leaf
b. roots
c. stem
d. flower
What are "roots"? (b)
100
Plants ______ to different stimuli.
The missing word means "to react to something."
a. dance
b. respond
c. meditate
d. pollinate
What is "respond"? (b)
100
This type of plant reproduces with flowers
a. plant without seeds
b. plant with cones
c. flowering plant
What is "flowering plant"? (c)
100
When you make a ________, you are saying what you think will happen
a. fable
b. poem
c. prediction
d. fairy tale
What is "prediction"? (c)
100
This word means "a living thing"
What is "organism"?
200
These plant structures use the energy of sunlight to make food for the plant
a. flower
b. roots
c. leaves
d. stem
What are "leaves"? (c)
200
This part of a plant's environment gives it the energy it needs to make food
a. soil
b. air
c. light
d. space
What is "light"? (c)
200
A(n) _____ tree is an example of a flowering plant
a. Christmas
b. pine
c. apple
What is "apple"? (c)
200
When you look at a plant, measure the roots, or feel its texture, you are: _________
a. estimating
b. measuring
c. observing
What is "observing"? (c)
200
This word means "to make more of its own kind"
What is "reproduce"?
300
All leaves have ______ that carry water through the leaf. (Hint: these can branch out in many directions!)
a. veins
b. photosynthesis
c. seeds
What are "veins"? (a)
300
Turning a plant's leaves towards the sun would be helpful because it would make more ______ for the plant
a. pollen
b. food
c. spores
What is "food"? (b)
300
Plants with ______ have thick, woody trunks and their leaves and long and thin, like needles
a. glitter
b. cones
c. seeds
What are "cones"? (b)
300
This tool can help a scientist observe plants by showing the parts of a plant in greater detail
a. hand lens
b. ruler
c. calculator
What is "hand lens"? (a)
300
This word means "to begin to grow." Seeds do this!
What is "germinate"?
400
Leaves need the following THREE resources to make food for the plant
a. magic, pixie dust, and love
b. soil, air, and space
c. sunlight, air, and water
What are "sunlight, air, and water"? (c)
400
Roots grow _____, toward the pull of gravity. Stems grow up, ______ from gravity.
What is "down" and "away"?
400
Mosses and ferns reproduce with
a. spores
b. seeds
c. luck
What are "spores"? (a)
400
When you do this, you put things in groups according to their characteristics. (Example: We can use our observations of plants to _____ them)
a. list
b. vocalize
c. classify
What is "classify"? (c)
400
This word means "all the living and nonliving things around an organism"
What is "environment"?
500
This plant structure holds up the leaves and flowers. (Hint: Flowers have thin and slender ones; trees and palm trees have thick ones.)
a. stem
b. roots
c. petal
d. leaf
What is "stem"? (a)
500
This is the force that pulls things toward Earth
a. homework
b. mind control
c. wizardy
d. gravity
What is "gravity"? (d)
500
A ______ is a tiny part of a moss or fern (plants without seeds!) that can grow into a new plant
a. leaf
b. germ
c. spore
What is "spore"? (c)
500
Scientists use this tool to make objects appear bigger
a. computer
b. cell phone
c. microscope
d. bar graph
What is "microscope"? (c)
500
A _______ is a tiny part of a moss or fern that can grow into a new plant