What Living Things Need
I am a living thing that makes my own food.
a. plant
b. water
c. soil
d. oxygen
a. plant
This can grow into a new plant. Most fruits have these.
a. leaves
b. stem
c. roots
d. seed
d. seed
The two basic groups plants can be sorted into
a. flowering and non-flowering
b. fruit and non-fruit
c. large and small
flowering and non-flowering
I hold the plant in the soil. I also take in water and minerals. I also store food for the plant.
a. roots
b. leaves
c. stems
d. petals
roots
the ability of a seed to hook on to animal fur or clothes, float on water, be carried by the wind, or pooped out by animals is an example of this
a seed dispersal
b seed storage
c seed acclimation
d seed minimization
seed dispersal
I am the 3 BASIC things a plant needs to make its own food.
a. sunlight, air and water
b. sunlight, wind, and water
c. sunlight, air and wind
d. sunlight, air and gravity
a. sunlight, air and water
which of the following cannot move pollen and seeds?
a. wind
b. animals
c. water
d. soil
soil
Fruits protect me. I live inside a fruit. There can be 1 or me or many, many of me.
a. root fiber
b. seed
c. pit
d. hull
seed
I take in air and sunlight to provide food for the plant. I am necessary for photosynthesis.
a. petals
b. seed
c. roots
d. leaves
leaves
Thorns, bark, and thickness are examples of this
a stem growth
b stem development
c stem adaptation
stem adaptation
When plants make food, they give off this gas. We need to breathe this in order to live.
a. Oxygen
b. Nitrogen
c. Helium
d. Carbon
a. oxygen
Every seed has this. It keeps the seeds safe and protected.
a. fertilizer
b. seed wax
c. seed coat
d. root barrier
seed coat
Where seeds are found in non-flowering plants (like pine trees)
a. hull
b. berry
c. cone
d. fruit
What is a cone?
I hold up the plant. I allow water and food to travel through the plant.
a. roots
b. stem
c. leaves
d. petals
stem
Thin, waxy needles to help retain water or large ones spread out to take in more sunlight are examples of this
a leaf protection
b leaf adaptations
c leaf stagnation
d leaf disturbance
leaf adaptations
This process occurs when a seed gets water and warmth that is the initial step in the growth phase.
a vaporization
b acclimation
c germination
d reproduction
c. germination
Some seeds have me. I am hard and I provide an extra layer of protection for the seed. Hint: Peanuts have me.
a. seed wrap
b. shell
c. husk
d. pod
b. shell
I am the stage of a plant's life when it gets its first set of leaves and roots.
a root
b seedling
c fruit
d sapling
b. seedling
The part of a plant that can become a fruit.
a. leaf
b. stem
c. flower
d. root
flower
Special colors, scents, sizes and shapes are examples of this for how I can attract more pollinators
a. plant accommodations
b. plant transformations
c. flower adaptations
d. flower transformations
flower adaptations
I am what comes out of the ground right after you place a seed. I am a very tiny plant.
a. seed
b. root
c. leaf
d. sprout
d sprout
This is how a living thing grows, lives, makes more of its kind & dies. It begins with a seed.
a. metamorphism
b. life cycle
c. sequence
b. life cycle
I am the stage of a plant's life when it has all the parts it needs to make new plants.
a. immature plant
b. mature plant
c. underdeveloped plant
d. juvenile plant
mature plant
the mature, ripened ovary of a flowering plant, containing seeds and functioning to protect and disperse them
a. fruit
b. seed
c. pit
d. acorn
fruit
Water lilies have long ones to reach the bottom of the pond while cacti have theirs at the surface to catch as much rain as possible. These are examples of
a. root adaptation
b. root extension
c. root maximization
c. root minimumization
root adaptation