Plant Parts
This plant part is primarily responsible for anchoring the plant and taking up water and nutrients.
What are roots?
This external part of the root is located at the tip of the root and is where new cells are produced.
What is the root cap?
This is the flattened portion of the leaf.
What is the leaf blade?
This flower part is the modified leaf that surrounds and protects the flower bud before it opens.
What is the sepal?
This plant completes its life cycle in one year.
What is an annual?
This plant part supports the leaves and flowers and extends the vascular system throughout the plant.
What is the stem?
This type of root grows straight down with lateral roots emerging as branching roots. Carrots are an example.
What is a taproot?
These small openings are found under the leaf and are involved in breathing or transpiration.
What are stomata?
This is the female reproductive organ of the flower.
What is the pistil?
This is the food manufacturing process in plants that combines carbon dioxide and water in the presence of light to make sugar and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the primary part of the plant where photosynthesis takes place.
What are leaves?
This type of root is shallow and dense, clings firmly to soil, and works well to control erosion.
What are fibrous roots?
These cells surround the stomata and regulate their opening and closing.
What are guard cells?
This flower structure produces pollen.
What is the anther?
This is the process by which plants lose water from their leaves through evaporation out of the stomata.
What is transpiration?
These are the reproductive organs of a flowering plant.
What are flowers?
This specialized stem is a creeping underground stem, usually horizontal, that produces roots and leaves at the nodes.
What is a rhizome?
In this leaf arrangement, leaves are staggered along the stem.
What is an alternate arrangement?
This is the transfer of pollen onto the stigma.
What is pollination?
This is the process through which plant leaves, stems, and roots consume oxygen and give off carbon dioxide.
What is respiration?
These are the six major plant parts: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and this reproductive unit.
What are seeds?
This specialized stem is a swollen, modified stem that grows underground. A potato is an example.
What is a tuber?
What type of venation looks most closely to a human palm?
What is palmate?
This type of plant has staminate and pistillate flowers on two separate plants, meaning “two houses.”
What is dioecious?
This is the process by which food and nutrients move within a plant from one plant part to another.
What is translocation?