Plants & Photosynthesis

A

100

Name 3 plant parts. 

leaves, stem, petals, roots, etc.

200

Name 3 plant needs. 

sunlight, water, soil, vitamins, minerals, carbon dioxide, etc.

300

True or False- 

A carnivorous plant, like a venus fly trap, still uses photosynthesis as a food source. 

true

All plants use photosynthesis to create their own food.

400

Describe why plants must go through photosynthesis in order to "eat". 

Plants are unable to move to find nutrients, like most animals and humans. Plants must make their own food to thrive in their natural environment. 

500

List the steps of photosynthesis, using your formula. 

water + sunlight + CO2= sugar + O2

B

100

Name a flowering plant. 

any plant that has a flower

(rose bush, sunflower, fruit trees, wildflowers, etc.)

200

Name a type of plant that does not have flowers. 

plant example (pine trees, evergreen trees, ferns, grass, mushrooms, cattails, etc.)

300

What is the special type of food that plants eat? 

sugar

glucose

400

True or False- 

You can find a special green component, chlorophyll, in a plant cell. 

true

500

What is one of the functions of a plant's leaves?

absorb sunlight

absorb carbon dioxide

where sugar is made for plant food

C

100

water + _________ + CO2= sugar + O2

sunlight

200

water + sunlight + CO2= _________ + O2

sugar

300

Which plant part soaks up water from the soil? 

roots

400

Which plant part does carbon dioxide soak into from the air? 

leaves

500

Which plant part is responsible for the location of where the plant food (sugar) is made? 

leaves 

D

100

Step 1 of photosynthesis begins in the roots. What is the job of the roots of a plant? 

to soak up water from the soil, as well as vitamins and minerals

200

Step 2 of photosynthesis includes the leaves. Name 1 thing that gets soaked into the leaves.

sunlight

carbon dioxide

300

Step 2 of photosynthesis includes the leaves. Name 1 thing that gets soaked into the leaves.

sunlight

carbon dioxide

400

The cholorophyll in plant cells is green, causing the plant to be green. 

True or False? 

true

500

True or False- 

The scientific name for the type of sugar that plants consume is sucrose. 

false! 

glucose is the scientific name for sugar that plants consume

E

100

What is the type of gas in the area that humans benefit from breathing? 

oxygen

200

What is the type of gas that plants release from their leaves as WASTE (they do not need this gas in the air)?

oxygen

300

What is the type of gas in the air that all plants benefit from (and that humans breathe out as waste)? 

carbon dioxide

400

true or false- This is the common abbreviation for carbon dioxide: 

CD2

false

CO2

500

true or false- 

Carbon dioxide and oxygen are both used by the plant during photosynthesis. 

false

Oxygen is not used, but released as waste through the plant leaves, back to the air.