Science Grade 5 2
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- The process by which producers, such as plants, make their own food by using energy from the Sun.
- photosynthesis
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Main function of _______:
To produce food for the plant. - leaf
- Tiny cell structures that contain a green pigment called chlorophyll and collects light energy from the Sun.
- chloroplast
- Substance that uses the Sun's light energy to change carbon dioxide and water into food or glucose.
- chlorophyll
- Food produced by plants that is like sugar.
- glucose
- The process of using oxygen to release energy from food.
- cell respirtation
- Waste product of plants.
- oxygen
- In leaves, leafstalks, roots, stems or other plant parts as starch.
- Where do plants store food?
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1. to grow
2. to produce seeds
3. to carry out life functions
4. to release energy in food - Name ways plants use energy in glucose.
- A growth response of a plant to conditions in the environment, such as light or water.
- tropism
- Growing toward the center of the Earth like roots do is called.
- geotropic response
- Grow toward sunlight.
- Name the direction that leaves and stems grow towards.
- When plant roots grow toward a wet area.
- hydrotropic response
- Threadlike parts on some plants that wrap around objects to support the plant.
- tendrils
- The process of breaking down food into nutrients that cells can absorb.
- digestion
- Used to build new cells and to repair damaged cells.
- the nutrients in food
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the digestive system
the respiratory system (oxygen--lungs)
the circulatory system
(heart & blood)
the excretory (waste) system & digestive system - animal body systems
- 1. mouth, 2. stomach, 3. esophagus, stomach, kidney, small intestine, large intestine, rectum
- parts of the digestive system