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Plant Processes
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Flower Parts
Leaf Parts
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A monocot
What is a plant having only one seed leaf?
100
The process by which plants make food from carbon dioxide, water, and chlorophyll in the presence of light.
What is photosynthesis?
100
A marigold is this type of plant. It grows, flowers, produces seed and dies in one year.
What is an annual?
100
This is the female part of the flower; it contains the ovary.
What is the pistil?
100
This part of the leaf is a large center vein from which all other leaf veins extend.
What is the midrib?
200
Xylem
What is plant tissue that moves food and water UP the stem or trunk?
200
The process when pollen moves to the female part of the plant and becomes fertilized. Bees help with this.
What is pollination?
200
This type of plant has leaves or needles throughout the year. Example: spruce tree
What is an evergreen?
200
This small tube leads from the stigma to the ovary. Pollen passes through this to reach the egg.
What is the style?
200
This part is the stalk or stem of the leaf
What is the petiole?
300
Fibrous root
What is a mass of roots and root hairs closer to the surface?
300
The process where plants lose water through their leaves and stems
What is transpiration?
300
This plant loses its leaves each year, then leafs out again in the spring. An example would be an elm tree.
What is a deciduous plant?
300
This male reproductive part of the flower contains pollen.
What is the stamen?
300
This is the name for the flat part of the leaf from the tip to the stem. It comes in various shapes, depending on the plant.
What is the blade?
400
Dicot
What is a seedling with two leaves?
400
The process where plants use oxygen and give off carbon dioxide, the same as we do as humans.
What is respiration?
400
This plant grows year after year, without replanting. An example would be a grapevine.
What is a perennial?
400
This part of the pistil is sticky so that it can catch pollen.
What is the stigma?
400
This is the name for the edges of the plant leaf - looking at these can aid in plant identification
What are leaf margins?
500
Phloem
What are the tubes/tissues that move food from the leaves DOWN to the roots?
500
These are the four essential elements for photosynthesis to occur.
What are light, chlorophyll, water, and carbon dioxide?
500
Roots, carrots and potatoes are examples of this type of plant part.
What is a root?
500
This plant has both male and female sexual parts. Example: tulip
What is a complete flower?
500
This is the name for the skin of the leaf, composed of a single layer of cells.
What is the epidermis?