Processes in Plants
The process of converting sunlight into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
A plant that develops from a seed and produces new seeds in a single growing season
What is an annual?
Leaves, stems and flowers belong to this plant system
What is the shoot system?
The stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem
What is the petiole?
The field of biology that includes the study of animals
What is zoology?
The process in which water vapor is lost from the leaves of plants
What is transpiration?
Plants that live from year to year
What is a perennial?
Plants that do not produce wood and whose stems remain soft
What are herbaceous plants?
The flat portion of the leaf
What is the blade?
The field of biology that includes the study of plants
What is botany?
The process of breaking down an energy source to release usable energy
What is cellular respiration?
Plants that lives through 2 growing seasons to complete its life cycle
What is a biennial?
The horizontal creeping stem of grass plant that grows above ground
The edge of the leaf
What is the margin?
The place where an organism lives
What is a habitat?
Pressure produced by water within a cell
What is turgor?
The most important group of plants on Earth
What is the grass family?
The carbohydrate found in plant cell walls that gives it strength
What is cellulose?
The large central vein
What is the midrib?
The liquid found in the leaves, stems and roots of plants
What is sap?
On a sunny day, rapid transpiration will have this effect on a plant
What is wilting?
Samaras are the winged fruits of this tree
What is the maple tree?
Rigid cell walls, chloroplasts and large vacuoles are specific to these type of cells
What are plant cells?
A vein pattern that resembles a feather, with one main vein and lateral veins branching off the main vein
What is pinnate?
Organisms that make their own food
What is an autotroph?
The single most important factor affecting the rate of photosynthesis
What is the intensity of sunlight?
Plants that trap and digest insects to obtain nitrogen
What are carnivorous plants?
Cork, parenchyma and epidermal tissue are 3 examples of this type of tissue
What is structural tissue?
Trees that lose their leaves each fall
What is deciduous?
Another name for grasses
What are graminoids?
The products of photosynthesis. (think equation)
What are glucose and oxygen
What is the cashew family?
A special layer of cells that severs the petiole from the branch in deciduous trees
What is the abscission layer?
What is compound?
Flowering seed plants whose flowers produce seeds covered by fruits
What are angiosperms?
Excess glucose is stored in this form in a plant.
What is a starch?
The tree family that has the largest deciduous trees in America
What are the sycamores?
Plant tissue that produces new tissue for growth and repair
What is meristematic tissue?
The middle layer of a leaf where the majority of photosynthesis occurs
What is the mesophyll?
The form of sugar that is transported throughout a plant.
What is sucrose?
Blackberries, raspberries, almonds and apples are part of this flowering plant family.
What is the rose family?
Structure where food is stored in a seed until it starts to grow.
What is a cotyledon?
Leaves that do not have a petiole
What is sessile?