Plants
Animals that only eat plants are called this.
What are herbivores?
This is the chemical symbol for water.
What is H2O?
THe first stage of most plant's life cycle is this stage.
What is a seed?
The parts of a plant that are in the ground whose job it is to soak up nutrients to help the plant grow strong and healthy.
What are the roots?
Compost is used as a F______________ for plants.
What is Fertilizer?
Pollination is how some plants do this? Hint: it means to make a copy of itself.
What is reproduce?
All plants probably started here instead of on land.
What is the ocean?
There are more water molecules in a single drop of water than there are of these on planet Earth.
What are grains of sand?
Some plants, like mosses and ferns don't come from seeds. Instead they come from these. Clue - mushrooms also come from these!
What are spores?
The long and strong part of the flower that helps it grow up towards the sun.
What is the stem?
A good compost pile should be about as wet as a wrung out one of these.
What is a sponge?
These insects are the world's best pollinators.
What are honey bees?
A vegetable must be one of these three parts of plant.
What are roots, stems, or leaves?
This is the word we use that means rerouting water to bring it to a farm or garden so that it has enough water.
What is irrigation?
The process of a seed shell opening up and the plant growing out of iut is called this.
What is germination?
Flower have leaves and these colorful pieces that attract pollinators and soak up the sun's rays.
What are pedals?
These are the two main colors that items in your compost bin should be. Yellow works too but these two colors are best.
What are green and brown?
Honey bees use nectar to make this delicious substance.
What is honey?
A mushroom is not a plant, instead it is a f_______.
What is a fungus?
Vascular plants use these to reach down into the earth to get water.
What are roots?
This is what the baby plant is called after the germination stage.
What is a seedling?
This is the female part of the flower. Hint: sounds like the name of a gun!
What is the pistil?
The main gas produced in a compost pile is this gas.
What is nitrogen?
Pollen is a main source of this for bees. Hint: it is how they get protein into their bodies to grow strong!
What is food?
Name one example of a non-vascular plant.
Moss, Hornwort, Liverwort
This is the word that describes the process for water entering a plant's roots or it's leaves. Hint: (scary word!) starts with an "O".
What is Osmosis?
Young plants can grow these which help attract pollinators and are famouly beautiful parts of some plants!
What are flowers?
The male part of the flower actually has the word men in it at the end of the word. The first part of the word is a command you might give to a dog.
What is the stamen (stay-men)?
The word that means "too small to see with the human eye" describes the size of the organisms are that help break down a good compost pile.
What are "microscopic" organisms?
Pollen is produced and hangs out in this part of a flower at the end of the filament. Hint: sounds like reindeer headgear!
What is the anther?
These plants do not have roots and get their water through the process known as osmosis.
What are non-vascular plants?
The Amazon Rainforest has so many plants it, doing so much "sweating" or releasing water into the air that it has it's own w__________.
What is weather?
The seedling stage is where these two nutrient providing parts of a plant appear.
What are roots and leaves?
Bees, the wind, and other critters transport this reproductive substance from one flower to another.
What is pollen?
Instead of letting a compost pile just sit there to decompose, people should do this to their compost piles. A pitchfork is a tool that can be used to perform this job.
What is "turn the pile over", "mix it up", or "aerate the pile"?
The pollen is deposited onto this female part of a flower where it is carried to the ovary. Hint: has the word Ma in it!
What is the stigma?
True or False? A vascular plant has roots.
True
These are the little tubes that transport water up and throughout a plant. Hint: starts with an "X"!
What are "Xylem"?
In class we often describe the leaves of a plant as these man-made types of things? Hint: they soak up sunlight to make energy!
What are solar panels?
The pistil is comprised of these three main parts. Hints:
1) Female reproductive organ in most animals. Starts with an "O".
2) Another word for fashion.
3) This word unscrambled: magtis
What are...
1) ovary
2) style
3) stigma
This is about how long it take for a compost pile to break down into good soil.
What is 6 months to a year?
Pollen can actually travel on this invisible "stuff". This "stuff" can carry pollen for thousands of miles.
What is air or wind?
These are the little tubes that transport nutrients or "food" throughout a plant. Hint: starts with a "Ph" and rhymes with poem!
What are "Phloem"?
This is the word we use to describe "plants sweating". Hint: Starts with a T, rhymes with transportation.
What is "Transpiration"?
Young plants and mature plants each have the ability to create new plants. What aord that starts with an "R" is the name of this stage?
What is "R"eproductive stage?
These are the two main parts of the stamen or the male part of the flower. Hint:
1) Sounds like a reindeer horn.
2) The opposite of "to empty" a mint.
What are...
1) anther
2) filament
The tiny microscopic organisms create heat while breaking down the ingredients in the pile. A good compost pile should reach this temperature range.
What is 110 - 140 degrees F°?
Pollen sticks to this body part of insects and they carry it from flower to flower allowing many flowers to reproduce.
What are an insects legs?