Structures of Plants
This part of a plant helps keep the plant firmly in the ground.
The roots
This part of a seed protects it from cold weather and other potential harms.
The seed coat
To begin to grow
germination
The only plants that reproduce with pollen are called flowering plants.
False. Plants with cones also reproduce with pollen.
This part of a plant acts like an "elevator" moving water and food up and down and throughout the plant
The stem
Name four things a plant needs to grow and survive?
water, air, sunlight, soil
To make more of its kind
reproduce
A plant makes its own food by combining water and air only.
False. A plant combines water, air, and sunlight to makes its food.
A plant's food supply is created in this part of a plant
The leaves
This is the term used to describe the baby plant inside of a seed.
an embryo
A powder that is made by the male part of a flower or male cone
Pollen
A plant could survive without roots and a stem.
False. A plant needs roots and a stem to get water and nutrients.
This part of the plant takes water and nutrients from the soil and sends it to other parts of the plant
The roots
How do we call the process when the seed opens in soil and the roots and stem of the plant begin to grow?
germination
All the living and non-living things around an organism
The environment
The only way a root helps a plant live and grow is by taking in water and nutrients from the soil.
False. Roots also help to anchor the plant and stand upright.
On a leaf, this plant part helps to move water and nutrients throughout all the leaf.
The veins
This is the food supply of a seed.
The cotyledons
A tiny part of a moss or a fern that can grow into a new plant
a spore
Stems and leaves grow towards sunlight only because they are afraid of the darkness.
Stems and leaves grow towards sunlight because sunlight provides the plant with energy it needs to make food or photosynthesise.