Plant Parts
What is the name of the grainy, yellow powder in plants that helps pollinate a plant?
pollen
What is the name of the vascular tube that carries materials from the roots to the leaves?
What is the term for when pollen moves from the stamen to the pistil?
pollination
What is the process that plants use to make sugar for food?
photosynthesis
What is the name of the male part of a flower?
stamen
What is the name of the vascular tube that carries sugar away from the leaves?
phloem
List at least three ways in which pollination can happen.
wind, water, insects, birds, other animals, people
What is it called when plants grow towards a light source?
phototropism
What is the name of the bottled shaped female part of a flower?
pistil
What is the name of the root system that grows straight down?
taproot
List at least three ways in which seeds can be spread.
wind, animals, falling onto the ground
What is it called when plants grow in a direction based on the pull of gravity?
gravitropism
Which part of the plant does photosynthesis take place in?
leaves
What is the name of the root system that grows roots in all directions and look like upside down branches?
fibrous root system
What is the difference between a monocot and a dicot?
Monocots have seeds that have one cotyledon. Dicots have seeds that have two cotyledons.
What is the growth of a plant in response to touching an object?
thigmotropism
What three jobs do roots have in a plant?
anchor a plant, store food, and absorb water from soil
What is the name of a single plant cell that can develop into a new plant.
HINT: It is only found in mosses and ferns.
spore
What is the name for a new plant that is protected by a seed coat?
embryo
What is the process for photosynthesis?
___+___+___ --> ___+___
CO2 + H2o + sunlight energy --> O2 + sugar