Structures of Plants
It's All Relative
Vocabulary
True or False
100
This part of a plant helps keep the plant firmly in the ground.
What is the roots
100

Root that branches out to the side.

What is secondary root

100

Single, thick root that extends downwards.

What is primary root

100

The only plants that reproduce with seeds are called flowering plants.

What is False. Plants with cones also reproduce with pollen.

200

This part of the plant is where photosynthesis happens.

What are the leaves

200

I produce my own food in an ecosystem. I am a.....

What is a plant?


200

Tissue that provides a rough, woody external covering on the stems of trees.

What is bark.

200

A plant could survive without roots and a stem.

What is False. A plant needs roots and a stem to get water and nutrients.

300

This part of a plant can be woody or flexible. Water and food travel up and down this part to get to the leaves and flowers.

What is the stem

300

The part of a leaf that attaches the leaf to a stem of the plant; found at nodes.

What is petiole

300

Where leaves and other structures grow on the stem.

What are nodes.

300
A plant makes it own food by combining water and air only.
What is False. A plant combines water, air, and sunlight to makes its food.
400
This part of the plant takes water and nutrients from the soil and sends it to other parts of the plant
What are the roots
400

The relatively wide, flat part of the leaf; contains cells that gather sunlight and perform photosynthesis.

What are blades

400

Having only one chromosome of each type


What is haploid

400
The only way a root helps a plant live and grow is by taking in water and nutrients from the soil.
What is false. Roots help the plant stand upright.
500

Within the plant, these structures are what water and nutrients use to travel to get to all parts of the plant.

stem

500

Structure in angiosperms consisting of male and female reproductive structures that attracts animal pollinators.

What are flowers

500

Process in which cells use carbon dioxide, water, and light energy to make oxygen and glucose, an energy-storing sugar.

What is photosynthesis

500

Photosynthesis creates oxygen 

What is true