Characteristics of Living Things
Functions of Plants
All About Plants
Plant Cells
Animal Cells
100
A function that a living thing performs to stay alive and produce more of its own kind.
What is a life process?
100
This is the part of the plant that forms the seeds and the fruit.
What is the flower?
100
The process plants use to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
100
The basic unit that makes up all living things.
What are cells?
100
This is the control center of plant and animal cells.
What is the nucleus.
200
The process of making more living things of their own kind.
What is reproduce?
200
These are the 3 main parts of a plant.
What is the leaf, stem, and roots.
200
This is a type of root that has one main branch.
What is a tap root?
200
This is the rigid wall around a plant cell that gives plants their shape.
What is the cell wall?
200
This acts like a skin to hold together the outer layer of animal cells, and is inside the cell wall in plant cells.
What is the cell membrane?
300
These are things that plants need.
What are air, food, water, sunlight, and space?
300
The function of this part of the plant is to take in water and nutrients from the soil and to hold the plant in place.
What is the root (s)?
300
Name two examples of unsafe plants.
What are poison ivy and poison oak?
300
This is the part where the plant makes food.
What is a Chloroplast?
300
This is the jelly like material that fills the cell.
What is cytoplasm?
400
This is a material in the soil that helps a plant to live and grow.
What is a nutrient?
400
This part of the plant has the job of carrying water and nutrients from one part of the plant to another.
What is the stem?
400
List the four ways in which a plant can be sorted.
What are by stems, by leaves, by flowers and cones, and by roots.
400
This is where the plant stores food, nutrients, or wastes.
What are that they are hatched from eggs, the use their lungs to breathe and they have two legs and a beak?
400
These are the power sources of a cell. They break down food to release energy.
What are mitochondria?
500
Plants use these things to make their own food.
What are sunlight, air, water, and nutrients?
500
This part of the plant takes in sunlight, air and water and moves the food to other parts of the plant.
What are the leaves?
500
Name the lifecycle of a plant. For example the tomatoe plant.
What is seed-seedling-young plant (adult)- flowering adult plant- plant dies and process starts over.
500
This is where plants get their color from.
What is chlorophyll?
500
A group of organs that work together.
What is an organ system?