Deep Breathing
The sugar that is generated as useable food in plants.
What is Glucose
The layer of a leaf that keeps too much water from evaporating.
What is the cuticle
Plants that reproduce without flowers and fruit.
What are gymnosperms
Many roots attached to the plant which spread out.
What are fibrous root systems
The tiny new plant, having both a shoot and root end.
What is an embryo
Tubes that transport food and water throughout a leaf.
What are Veins
The stalk or stem that attaches the blade to the stem of the plant.
What is the petiole
Female reproductive part of the flower that consists of the stigma, style, ovary and egg cells.
What is a pistill
Needle leaf trees that remain green year-round. Also called "evergreens." Many plants are this type of gymnosperm. They produce their seeds inside of cones.
What are conifers
The process by which plants combine carbon dioxide, water, and minerals to form glucose, using light energy trapped by chlorophyll.
What is photosynthesis
Tiny openings in the leaves of plants.
What are Stomata
Veins which are side by side to each other, running from the base of the leaf to the tip of the leaf.
What are parallel veins.
A “seed leaf” that stores and provides nutrients, until the seedling is able to produce its first true leaves and begin photosynthesis.
What is a cotyledon
Trees which have plenty of water, light and minerals will have these sort of rings when their cross-sections are examined.
What are rings far apart.
Soft and bendable stems.
What are herbaceous stems
The continuous exchange of gases between a plant and the atmosphere around it, in which a plant takes in carbon dioxide and releases oxygen.
What is Respiration
Leaves which do not grow side by side along a stem, but run stair-step fashion from the base of the stem to the top, one at a time.
What are alternating leaves.
The part of a flower's stamen that produces and contains pollen, typically located at the tip of a stalk called a filament.
What is the anther
Native to the Eastern deciduous forest, this shady American hardwood boasts a remarkable scarlet crown of net-veined leaves in the autumn months, and adapts best in deep, moist, acidic soil.
What is a red maple.
They are angiosperms, which produce seeds inside of fruits. They lose their green leaves and stop making food in the fall of the year. Also called "broadleaf."
What are deciduous trees
The evaporation of water from a plant.
What is Transpiration
Leaves arranged in opposite pairs, rotating 90° at every node along the stem.
What are decussate leaves
It has only one “seed leaf,” which is usually thin and small and is accompanied by a section of endosperm.
What is a monocot
A large evergreen tree native to western North America, known for its conical shape and ability to grow up to 100 meters tall. It features flat, soft needles, thick corky bark, and produces distinctive cones with three-pointed bracts,
What is a Douglas Fir
A necessary characteristic of living things, required for keeping conditions in their bodies constant.
What is temperature.