Plant Parts
Propagation
Processes
Flowers
Hodge Podge
100
This part of the leaf attaches the leaf to the stem.
What is the petiole?
100
The part of the seed that provides food for the germinating seed.
What is the endosperm?
100
Water, carbon dioxide, and light are converted into sugars for the plant.
What is photosynthesis?
100
The male part of the flower.
What is the stamen?
100
The tissue that conducts manufactured food down the stem in the plant.
What is the phloem?
200
Modified stems that run along the ground to propagate the plant. Found on strawberries and airplane plants.
What is the stolon?
200
Using vegetative parts of the plant to produce new plants.
What is asexual propagation?
200
Oxygen is used to convert sugar into energy for the plant.
What is respiration?
200
The female part of the flower.
What is the pistil?
200
One of the three primary macronutrients.
What is nitrogen, phosphorus, or potassium?
300
I make most of the food for the plant.
What is the leaf?
300
This below ground modified stem is used to make new plants. It is commonly found in grasses.
What is a rhizome?
300
Loss of water vapor through the pores in the plant leaves.
What is transpiration?
300
I protect the unopened flower bud.
What is the sepal?
300
A leaf consisting of several leaflets.
What is a compound leaf?
400
A short, thickened underground stem that is used for food storage.
What is a tuber?
400
Making a plant part form new roots while it is still attached to the parent plant.
What is layering?
400
Moving nutrients, water, and food around in the plant.
What is translocation?
400
I attract pollinators to the flower.
What is the petal?
400
The thin layer of cells in the stems of dicots that makes new xylem and phloem tissue.
What is the cambium?
500
A root system characterized by a central, thickened root.
What is a taproot?
500
An insect or animal that moves pollen from one plant or flower to another?
What are pollinators?
500
Getting water and dissolved nutrients from the soil.
What is absorption?
500
A collective name for all of the flower petals.
What is the corolla?
500
The top stem cutting taken from a plant stem.
What is a stem tip cutting?