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This is a name for any living thing.
What is an organism?
This is one of the most important groups of plants.
What are grasses?
This root system has a large primary root that grows straight down.
What is a taproot?
This element is an essential part of proteins.
What is nitrogen?
This is the function of a flower.
What is to reproduce the plant?
This is the function of the leaves.
What is to make the food?
This is the study of living things.
What is biology?
These are the three most important cereal grasses.
What are wheat, corn, and rice?
In this root system all the roots are about the same size.
What is a fibrous root?
This plant family enriches the soil.
What are legumes?
Petals in groups of 4 or 5 are characteristic of this type of plant.
What is dicot?
This is the large central vein of a leaf.
What is the midrib?
This is the study of plants.
What is botany?
This term refers to non woody plants.
What are herbs or herbaceous plants?
This is the function of the root.
What is to support and anchor the plant, store food, absorb water and minerals from the ground?
These bacteria grow on the root of legumes to convert nitrogen from the air into nitrates.
What are nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
This plant family is known for its poisonous members.
What is cashew?
This type of venation has two or more major veins extending outward from a from one point.
What is palmate?
This is the study of animals.
What is zoology?
This type of plant is usually harvested after its first season of growth.
What is a biennial?
This is the kind of root found in most monocots.
What is a fibrous (messy mop) root?
This atmospheric phenomena adds nitrates to the air.
What is lightening?
This type of flower in a composite flower head has showy petal-like structures.
What is a ray flower?
This type of the venation has veins and a branching pattern characterized by a major vein with smaller veins extending outward from it.
What is pinnate?
This is the place where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
This is the scientific term for flowering seed plants.
What are angiosperms?
This is the type of root found in most dicots.
What is a (deep) taproot?
This type of bacteria returns soil nitrogen to the air.
What are denitrifying bacteria?
This is the creeping, above ground stem of a grass plant.
What are stolon?
This type of tree loses its leaves each fall.
What is deciduous?