Plants Review

___________ is when leaves make food for the plant using water, sunlight, carbon dioxide and chlorophyll. Answer: photosynthesis

The four basic parts of a plant are ________. Answer: roots, stem, leaf, flower

I act like a straw and suck up the water and nutrients from the soil. Answer: roots

I act like an elevator, carrying the water and nutrients up to the leaf. I also support the flower. Answer: stem

I am the kitchen of the plant. I make the food for the plant. Answer: leaf

I attract pollinators with my bright colors and fragrant smell. Answer: petal

The factory of the plant were the seeds are made is called the ___________. Answer: flower

The part of the flowering plant that protects the seed. Answer: fruit

This is a diagram of the ______ and ________ part of flower. Answer: male, female

The ______ is the sticky part of the plant that catches the pollen used to fertilize the egg. Answer: stigma

The ______ holds up the stigma and transports the pollen down to the ovary. Answer: style

The ______ produces and holds the pollen grains until a pollinator takes it and drops it onto the sticky stigma. Answer: anther

The ______ supports the anther. Answer: filament

The ______ protects the flower until it is ready to bloom. Answer: sepal

When a seed comes to life and starts to grow or sprout. Answer: germination

What are some ways a seed can travel? Answer: wind, rain, water, animals, and people

Any living thing is called an ____________. Answer: organism

Plants are considered producers because they can ___________. Answer: make their own food

The diagram shows the ______ ______ of a flowering plant. Answer: life cycle

The three basic part of a seed are the ___________. Answer: seed coat, stored food (cotyledon), and embryo

Plants are important because ___________. Answer: they provide food and shelter some medicines are made from plants trees give lumber and other products they produce oxygen