Plant Basics
This structure elevates the plant for better access to sunlight, pollinators, etc.
What is the stem?
This process involves substances moving from high concentration areas to low concentration areas.
What is diffusion?
These are colourful to attract pollinators.
What are petals?
A seed developing into a plant.
What is germination?
The process that releases energy from glucose.
What is cellular respiration?
T/F: All plants reproduce using seeds.
False. Some trees have cones instead of seeds; some plants don't use seeds at all.
This is the opposite process to cellular respiration.
What is photosynthesis?
The structure where male reproductive cells are produced.
What is the anther? (Pollen contains male reproductive cells)
Seeds are formed directly from this plant structure.
What is the ovule?
The practice of choosing plants with ideal traits and characteristics, and using only those ideal plants to reproduce new plants.
What is selective reproduction?
These plant structures are where most photosynthesis occurs in plants.
What are leaves?
This process occurs because water molecules "stick" to each other and can pull each other up skinny tubes.
What is capillary action?
This structure is a sac at the base of the pistil.
What is the ovary?
The structure of a seed that directly becomes the growing plant.
What is the embryo?
These are microscopic tubes that carry glucose throughout a plant.
What are phloem?
The "vascular bundles" that transport water throughout a plant.
What are xylem?
_______ pushes water into the roots, capillary action pulls water up the stem, and _______ sucks water up the stem like a straw.
What are osmosis and transpiration?
The filament is to the stamen what the _______ is to the pistil.
What is the style?
The presence of these indicate the plant is fully grown and able to reproduce.
What are flowers?
Runners, rhizomes, cuttings, and suckers are examples of this type of reproduction, where new plants come from only one parent plant.
What is vegetative (asexual) reproduction?
This type of root has a lot of separate strands and is typically found in moist soils.
What are fibrous roots?
This process occurs via the stomata.
What is gas exchange?
This thick part of the stem provides extra support to the sepals and petals.
What is the receptacle?
The life stage when plants begin photosynthesis.
What is germination?
This process requires energy, whereas osmosis and diffusion do not.
What is active transport?