Parts & Functions
The female part where seeds grow
What is the ovary?
Plants make other plants like themselves.
What is: reproduce?
The primary food producing part of green plants
What are leaves?
The period of time when life functions slow down
What is dormancy?
The stalk in the center of the flower where pollen travels
What is the Pistil?
Pollinators are
What are animals or insects that help plants reproduce?
The process in which green plants make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
The reason a plant would enter dormancy
What is lack of nutrients?
Ferns and Mosses reproduce with these
What are spores?
4 examples of pollinators
What areBirds, bats, bees, ladybugs, or butterflies?
The green material in leaves that traps energy from the sun
What is chlorophyll?
Yellow, powdery substance
What is pollen?
At least 3 ways seeds are dispersed
What are: wind; water; animals eat and drop them, pass them out; pollinators (attach to bees); seeds hitch a ride on animal fur or feathers? (Any 3)
For seeds to form, pollen must be moved from the stamen to the stigma.
What is: pollination?
3 things needed for photosynthesis to take place
What are: sunlight, carbon dioxide, & water?
Hornworts, Moss, Liverworts are examples of
What are nonvascular plants
A period in which a plant has no active growth due to changes in the environment
What is dormancy?
How insects are attracted
What are petals?
Products produced during photosynthesis
What are: oxygen & sugar (glucose)?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is an element or a compound? Why?
What is a compound? What is more than one element?