Vocabulary
Difference between flowering and nonflowering plants.
Flowering plants are plants with seeds that grow flowers. Nonflowering plants do not grow flowers, but cones instead.
What does it mean to germinate?
To begin to grow.
How can you classify plants?
Sorting them into groups by color, size, shape, how they reproduce, their flowers, seeds.
List the things that plants need in order to live and grow.
Plants need food, air, water, and space.
What are some functions of the root?
They keep the plant stable in the ground, store food made by the plant's leaves, take in water and materials called minerals in the soil.
How do nonflowering plants that do not make seeds, such as ferns or moss, reproduce?
Spores (a small cell that grows into a new plant)
What does it mean when plants reproduce?
They make more of the same kind.
All flowering plants grow flowers. How are flowering plants different from each other?
They have different kinds of roots, stems, leaves, and flowers.
How do you know that a plant's leaves are an important part of a plant?
The plant cannot make its food without leaves. Photosynthesis takes place in the leaves.
What is the name of a root that is one large root that grows deep into the soil towards the Earth's center.
Taproot.
The process by which plants use air, water, and energy from sunlight to make food.
Photosynthesis.
Why do plants need to be pollinated?
So the plants can make seeds.
Most roses lose their leaves in fall and grow them again in the spring. What does this tell you about roses?
They are deciduous.
Tell about the lines in leaves and what they do.
The lines in leaves are tiny tubes called leaf veins. They carry water, minerals, and sugar through the leaf.
I have a plant that has roots that grow in many directions. What kind of root does the plant have?
The plant has fibrous roots.
Plants need energy from the sun to change __________ and water into sugar and ____________.
carbon dioxide, oxygen
What is a life cycle?
The stages through which a living thing passes during its life.
How do coniferous trees make seeds?
They make seeds in cones.
Where does most photosynthesis take place in leaves?
Photosynthesis takes place in the tall, thin cells in the middle of the leaf.
How is the movement of water different from the movement of food in plant stems?
Water moves from the roots through the stem to the leaves. Food moves from the leaves through the stem to the roots.
A material needed by living things for energy, growth, and repair. Plants need this to live and grow.
Nutrient
What is a conifer plant?
Plants that grow cones instead of flowers to make seeds.
A plant does not have flowers. It is tall and has needle-like leaves. It does not lose all of its leaves in fall. What kind of plant is it?
A coniferous tree.
What can leaves do when the plant has too much water.
Some of the water is let out through the tiny holes on the underside of the leaves.
Explain how an underground stem can make new plants.
An underground stem has buds. New stems grow from these buds and push up above the ground to make new plants.