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Plants Needs and Offspring
Plant Parts and Functions
Plant Life Cycle
Vocabulary
Plant Parts and Functions
100
What are the four basic needs of a plant?
Air, water, sun, and space to grow
100
What plant part helps keep the plant in the ground?
Roots
100
The life cycle of a plant begins with a ____________.
Seedling
100
What is the cycle called when a plant goes from being a seed, to a seedling, to a small plant, to an adult plant, and then dies?
The plant life cycle
100
What are the functions of a plants roots? Name two...
Keep the plant in the ground, drink water from soil, soak up nutrients such as minerals
200
What do adult plants have that seedlings do not?
Flowers or Cones
200
Which plant part takes in sunlight and carbon dioxide to help the plants process of photosynthesis?
Leaves
200
When a seed ____________, a stem grows upward and a root grows downward.
germinates
200
What is a substance that provides nourishment to plants?
nutrient
200
What are the functions of the stem? Name two...
Holds the plant up, carries water and food to other parts of the plant
300
What do both adult plants and offspring use sunlight to make?
Food or nutrients
300
What part of the plant holds up the leaves, flowers, and fruits?
Stem
300
When the seedling develops into a small plant and grows leaves it will begin to make ________ for food.
Sugar
300
What is the product of the reproductive process of a plant?
offspring
300
What are the functions of the leaves? Name two...
Help the plant make food, they have tiny holes that let water and air through, keep animals from eating the plant
400
What is the process called when plants use sunlight to create their own food?
Photosynthesis
400
Which plant part makes pollen or seeds?
Flower
400
When a small plant becomes an _____________ it will flower and make seeds for reproduction.
Adult plant
400
What is the process called when a seed turns into a seedling and sprouts tiny roots?
Germination
400
What is the function of flowers on plants?
Flowers make seeds or pollen
500
Water/nutrients are to plants as ___________ are to humans.
Food and energy
500
What plant part has tubes that move water and minerals from the roots of the plants to the leaves?
Stem
500
What happens to a plant at the end of its life cycles?
The plant dies and becomes part of the soil.
500
What is the process where leaves use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make glucose for a plant?
Photosynthesis
500
Compare the life cycle of a plant to the life cycle of a human. How are they similar and how are they different?
Plant life cycle: Seed, Seedling, small plant, adult plant, death Human life cycle: Baby, teenager, adult, death Same type of cycle, require some of the same things, both have reproduction and offspring