The part of the plant that holds the offspring (baby) of the parent plant and stored food.
What is a seed?
100
Protects the seed.
What is the seed coat?
200
The part where water travels from the root to the rest of the plant.
What is the stem?
200
First part of the plant to grow from the seed.
What is the root?
200
Another word for "soaking up" the water.
Begins with the letter "a".
What is absorbing?
200
A young plant inside the seed.
What is an embryo?
200
The three parts that make up the seed's embryo.
What are the tiny leaves, stem and root?
300
Made with long thin hairs and soak up the water and minerals for the plant.
What is the root?
300
Produced by the flower to help the plant survive.
What are seeds?
300
Plants use this to make their food.
What is air and light?
300
The term for a seed beginning to grow.
What is germinate?
300
The soft food (energy) used by the embryo, inside the seed, when it first begins to grow.
What is the cotyledon?
400
Plants are made up of many different parts that help them live and grow. A name for these parts is...
(Begins with the letter "s")
What are structures?
400
A plant that makes its food in the stem because its leaves are made of prickly spines.
What is a cactus?
400
In some plants this develops from parts of the flower and holds the seeds.
What is fruit?
400
A seed having only one cotyledon.
(Examples: wheat and corn seed)
What is a monocot?
400
A seed having two cotyledons.
(Examples: lima and pinto beans)
What is a dicot?
500
The scientific name for the gas in the air that leaves need, along with light and water, to make food (or energy) for the plant.
What is carbon dioxide?
500
Evergreen trees and shrubs do not produce their seeds in flowers or fruit. The structures that hold their seeds are called...
What are cones?
500
The name for the leaves on an evergreen plant.
What are needles?
500
May contain chemicals that inhibit germination or sprouting until appropriate growing conditions occur.
What is a seed coat?
500
A plant that does not behave like most. It flowers above ground and forms pegs that go underground. A seedpod grows from the pegs. We eat the seed of this plant.