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What are the parts of a plant?
What are the parts of a seed?
How do seeds travel?
How do seeds grow?
How do plants make their own food?
100
This plant part is responsible for absorbing water and mineral nutrients from the soil.
What is the root?
100
This seed part is the new plant. It will grow into roots and a stem.
What is the embryo?
100
A seed with small spikes or thorns moves in this way.
What are animals?
100
This is the name of the process by which a plant grows and changes during its life.
What is a life cycle?
100
This is the name of the process by which plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
200
This plant part is responsible for supporting the plant and holding up the leaves so they can collect sunlight.
What is the stem?
200
This seed part is food for the embryo until the plant can make its own food.
What is the cotyledon?
200
A seed with tiny hairs moves in this way.
What is the wind?
200
This is the name of the stage at which a plant begins to grow.
What is germination?
200
This is the name of the type of energy that is collected and stored inside the leaves.
What is light energy?
300
This plant part is responsible for producing food so the plant can survive in its environment.
What is the leaf?
300
This seed part protects the embryo.
What is the seed coat?
300
A seed has a better chance of growing if it falls away from this location.
What is the parent tree?
300
A plant can produce fruit once it reaches this stage.
What is the adult stage?
300
This pigment gives a plant its green color and is responsible for trapping sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
400
This plant part is responsible for anchoring the plant in the ground.
What is the root?
400
This seed part will grow into the first leaves of the plant once it emerges from the soil.
What is the cotyledon?
400
A maple tree seed travels in this way.
What is wind?
400
This stage describes a plant that has just emerged from the soil.
What is a seedling?
400
This is the name of the gas that plants absorb from the air.
What is carbon dioxide?
500
This plant part is responsible for carrying water, minerals, and food between the roots and the leaves.
What is the stem?
500
A seed's main job is to ____________.
What is grow a new plant?
500
Animals help move seeds in this way.
What is carrying them in their fur? OR What is releasing them in their droppings?
500
This stage falls between the seedling and adult stages.
What is the young adult stage?
500
These are the tiny openings on the underside of a leaf which allow carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water to pass into and out of the leaf.
What are stomata?