How to Classify Plants
What is a Non Flowering plant ?
A plant that doesn’t have flowers
Plants need ______, ______, ______, and ______ to live and grow (Page 99)
Food, air, water, and space
What is the definition of NUTRIENT?
HINT
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Any material needed by living things for energy, growth, and repair. Plants need nutrients to live and grow
When does pollination happen ?
(page 112)
When animals or wind move pollen to the part of the flower that makes seeds
The definition of life cycle is
The stages through which a living thing passes during its life
What is a Spore
A small cell that grows into a new plant
What is the gas in air that is absorbed by most plants
Carbon Dioxide or CO2
________ Enters the root through the root hairs. The more root hairs a plant has the more water the plant can take in
WATER
Germinate means ?
Begin to grow
True or False- Are all flowers fruit
FALSE
You can classify plants into groups by
Color
Size
Shape
How they reproduce, or produce offspring, flowers and seeds
The process by which plants use air, water and energy from sunlight to make food is called ?
What is Photosynthesis?
What is a stem main source of energy
SUNLIGHT
When plants ____________ they make more of the same kind
Reproduce
List in order from SHORTEST life span to longest on page 121
AMERICAN ELM, DOUGLAS FIR, REDWOOD,BRISTLECONE PINE
There are different groups of flowering plants Each group has different kinds of (Hint 4)
Roots
Stems
Leaves
And flowers
Why do plants need energy from the sun?
To make food
Cactus stems grow _____ Ground
ABOVE
If you eat a ripe tomatoes on JULY 29, what day was the seed planted ? Page 115
May 31st
Draw the life cycle of a pumpkin and label it.
Germinating seed
Growth
Pollination
Adult plant
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Leaves fall off dogwood trees in the fall. The leaves grow back in the spring. Trees that lose and grow leaves in this way are called
Deciduous trees
Water enters the plant through_________ Then water moves up the stem to the leaves
Roots
Which type of root could help a plant more in a dry area
A fibrous root
Flowering Plants grow flowers that make seeds. Flowers have different parts. One Part makes_______ another part ______
Pollen, Attracts bees and other animals to the flower
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Draw the Life cycle of a Conifer Plant
Germinating Seeds
Growth
Pollination
Adult Plants with Seeds
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