All About Plants
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What is one way plants can help humans?
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This type of root spreads out and goes deep into the ground to collect water and nutrients in the soil.
What is a tap root.
Why would a stem hold the plant close to the sun?
What is so the leaves can collect sunlight
This is why leaves are usually thin and flat.
What is to collect as much sunlight as possible.
This is why flowers are brightly coloured.
What is to attract birds and insects.
What are three ways seeds can get dispersed?
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This type of root is short and has fine hair-like roots.
What is a fibrous root.
What is the purpose of the stem?
To hold the plant and to transport water and nutrients
During photosynthesis, leaves absorb this from the air.
What is carbon dioxide.
This is the male part of the flower.
What is the stamen.
What is the stem of a tree called?
Trunk
4 examples of roots that we eat.
What is potato, carrot, turnip, and onions
In droughts or emergencies, some stems do this.
What is store water and nutrients.
During photosynthesis, leaves release this into the air.
What is oxygen.
This is the female part of the flower.
What is the pistil.
A plant with both male and female parts is called what?
A perfect flower
This is why plants don't blow away in a storm.
What is the roots act like an anchor.
3 examples of stems that we eat.
What is sugar cane, celery, asparagus, broccoli
Photosynthesis happens in the leaves. What is photosynthesis?
Photosynthesis is how plants make their own food by taking in sun, water, nutrients and carbon dioxide, and releasing oxygen.
These two items have to mix to create seeds.
What is pollen and eggs.
What are the plants called that eat insects?
Carnivorous plants
What do roots in the desert do?
Spread out far and shallow in order to collect water
What is the name of the food that gets stored in the stem?
Glucose
What is the chemical in plant that is green and helps create glucose?
Chlorophyll
What part of the flower produces pollen?
Anther