Plant Survival
Vocabulary
More about Plants
Experiments
Photosynthesis
100

Plants could get this need from precipiation.

What is water?

100

 the ability to do work or change something

What is energy?

100

This term means starting to grow or develop.

What is germinate/germination?

100

A seed was planted, but there is not any growth and there should be.  You look at the dirt and it is dry.  What might the plant need/

What is water?

100

This is the structure that allows water to enter the plant.

What are the roots?

200

Plants get water and nutrients from this.

What is the soil?

200

It is the openings on the underside of the leaf  and prevents water from escaping?

What are stomata?


200
The process in which a plant makes its own food.

What is photosynthesis?

200

Your seed did not grow, but the soil is wet.  You realize that you can see the seed and fertilizer pellets.  What might you need more of?

What is soil?

200

What are the ingredients for photosynthesis?

What is carbon dioxide and water?

300

Overcrowding could be a problem.  Plants need this to survive.

What is space?

300

Water travels from the plants roots to the center of the plant by these specialized tissues.

What are xylem?

300

Plants get their energy from the __________.

What is the sun?

300

Your seed had plenty of water (but not too much), and plenty of soil. Why might your seed not be growing?

What is... the seed may need more sunlight?  or Was the seed too old or not a quality seed?

300
These are the products of photosynthesis.

What is sugars and oxygen?

400

Plant get their energy to make food from this.

What is the sun?

400

Theses tissues transport suars to all parts of the plant.

What are Phloem?

400

Plants ________ food and give off _____________.

What is plants produce food and give off oxygen?

400

If I wanted to test whether a seed needs sunlight to grow, I could place a quad of seeds in the sunlight and the other quad of seeds where?

What is darkness?

400

This is why sugars are important for the plant.

Sugars are use as food for the plant.  

500

Plants need ___________ to survive which could be from the sun or from a special bulb.

What is light?

500

This is evaporation of water from the plant's leaves.

What is transpiration?

500
They are the five needs of a plant.

What is water, air, sunlight, space, and nutrients?

500

If a plant was leaning toward a window for sunlight,this would happen if I turned the plant to face the opposite way.

What is...it would eventually straighten up and be drawn to the sunlight again.

500
What are the two functions of the stomata?
What is to allow air to enter and prevent water from escaping?