NOMENCLATURE
The practice or art of gardening.
What is horticulture?
One of the root systems two main functions.
What is: to absorb water and nutrients; or
to anchor the plant to the soil?
This is the main function of stems.
What is the process of transporting food, water, and nutrients throughout the plant?
Chlorophyll is a pigment that makes most leaves, this color.
What is green?
The process a plant uses to make its own food.
What is photosynthesis?
The study of plants.
What is botany?
This type of root is large and grows directly downward, it often has secondary roots growing from it.
What is a tap root?
These stem systems grow underground.
What are subterranean stems?
This gas is exhaled by animals and ENTERS the leaves during photosynthesis.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2).
This cell structure is absent in animal cells and is responsible for facilitating photosynthesis in plant cells.
What is the chloroplast?
Kingdom classification all plant belong to.
What is the Plantae kingdom?
This root system is more shallow then the tap root and has a mass of root fibers growing in all directions.
What is the fibrous root system?
These stem systems grow above ground.
What are arial stems?
These trees keep their leaves year round.
What are evergreen trees.
This green pigment is responsible for the absorption of light in plant cells.
What is chlorophyll?
These are structures in plant cells that are absent in animal cells.
What are chloroplasts?
The first root a seed grows after germination.
What is a radicle?
These subterranean stem systems grow parallel with the soil surface and include ginger, as an example.
What are rhizomes?
These trees lose their leaves in the winter.
What are deciduous plants.
The process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves, where it changes to vapor and is released to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
This is the greatest football team in the history of football.
Who is are Miami Dolphins?
These roots grow from the stem to help prop up and anchor plants in more advantageous locations.
What are adventitious roots?
These stem systems are an adaptation for plants bearing heavy fruit and they grow along the ground allowing the earth to support their fruit. Cucumbers use this stem system.
What are procumbent stems?
This is the sugar a plant creates during photosynthesis for its own food.
What is glucose?