Plant Parts and functions
Leaves, stem, roots, and flowers
What are the parts of the plant?
Texture and capacity to hold water
What are properties of soil?
Seed coat, embryo, and cotyledon
What are the parts of the seed?
How well plants grow and survive is determined by a combination of ___________ conditions.
What are environmental conditions?
Seed, germination, seedling, young plant, mature plant
What is a plant life cycle?
Straw that sucks up water and minerals and supports leaves
What is the stem?
Sand, clay and humus
What is components of soil?
Part of the seed from which the new plant will begin to grow
What is the embryo?
Drought conditions will tend to ___________ plant health and growth.
What is diminish or harm?
Events that repeat in the same order
What is a cycle?
Anchors the plant, absorbs water and minerals and sends these to the stem
What are roots?
Different soils have different textures and capacities that allow soils to keep ______ and nutrients.
What is water?
This is the hard layer of protection
What is the seed coat?
Only plants adapted to limited amounts of water can live in _________.
What are deserts?
Makes food for the plant
What are the leaves?
This produces seeds and fertilizes plants. This attracts insects such as butterflies and bees to the plant to pollinate them.
What is the flower?
Soil consists of different components and these characteristics of soil influence the growth and ______ of plants.
What is survival?
This stores food in the seed.
What is the cotyledon?
Light, temperature, water, humidity, and nutrition affect plant growth and are called __________.
What are environmental factors?
Leaves absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. They convert CO2 into food by using energy from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
This plant part catches sunlight and makes food for the plant.
What is a leaf?
Deep, well-drained soil found on the slopes and ridges of the ________ region is excellent soil for farming.
What is the piedmont region?
The sprouting of the seedling
What is germination?
Most growing plants contain about 90 percent _____ and this plays many roles in plants including photosynthesis, shape of the plant, movement of minerals throughout the plant, cooling leaves, and more.
What is water?
Leaves take in carbon dioxide gas from the air and create the _______ gas that we all breathe.
What is oxygen?