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Vocabulary
Leaves
Roots and Stem
How Plants Respond
Groups of Plants
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What is a living thing?
organism
100
Could the leaves of a plant live without roots and stems? Why?
No, leaves cannot live without roots and stems. Leaves need roots and stems to get water and nutrient.
100
What does a root take in from the soil?
Roots take water and nutrients from the soil.
100
How do stems respond to light?
The stems of a plant grow toward the light.
100
Which groups of plants reproduce with seeds?
Plants with flowers and plants with cones.
200
To make more of its own kind
Reproduce
200
How do leaves make food for the plant?
Leaves use energy from sunlight, air, and water to make food for the plant.
200
How do the roots of a plant get food? List the parts of a plant that food passes through as it travels to the roots.
Food moves from the leaves to the stem and then to the roots.
200
How do plants respond to gravity?
The roots grow down toward the pull of gravity and the stem grows up, against the pull of gravity.
200
Which group of plants reproduce with spores?
Ferns and Mosses reproduce with spores.
300
To begin to grow.
Germinate
300
Why does a leaf need veins?
Veins carry water to the leaf and food away from the leaf.
300
Ms. Bowman gave Trinity a plant in a pot. The stems of the plants are bending toward the window. Why are the stems bending?
The plants are growing towards the sunlight. The leaves get the energy from the sunlight to make food.
300
What is the definition of gravity?
Gravity is the force that pulls things toward Earth.
300
Why do flowers need animals, like bees, to help it reproduce?
Bees spread pollen from flower to flower. Pollen must be spread to female flower parts for fruits and seeds to begin growing.
400
A powder that is made from the male part of a flower or the male cone
Pollen
400
How do the leaves of a plant use sunlight?
The leaves use sunlight to make food for the plant.
400
How could Trinity stop the plants from bending?
All Trinity needs to do is move the pot.
400
How are YOU affected by gravity?
Our bodies are pulled downward to Earth.
400
What comes first, the fruit or the seed?
The seed forms first!
500
A tiny part of a moss or a fern that can grow into a new plant
Spore
500
What does the sunlight give the plant?
Sunlight gives the plant energy.
500
What problems would occur if you broke the stem to a plant?
It wouldn't be able to transport water or nutrients and the plant wouldn't be able to support itself
500
Potatoes grow underground. How do they depend on the above-ground parts of the potato plant?
Potatoes store food made by the plant's leaves. The food travels from the leaves through the above-ground stem to reach the potatoes.
500
How do you know that a plant reproduced with pollen?
The plant has fruits or flowers.