Plants SOL 4.4
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- Leaf
- A part of the plant that makes most of the plant's food.
- Stem
- The part of a plant that supports the plant and carries food, water and other materials to and from the roots and leaves.
- Root
- the part of the plant that anchors it into the ground and gathers water and nutrients the plant needs to make food.
- Pistil
- The part of a flower where the seed develops and grows.
- Photosynthesis
- A process in plants that uses energy from sunlight to make food from water and carbon dioxide.
- Pollen
- Powdery grains in a flower that contain its male sex cells.
- Pollination
- The transfer of a flower's pollen from anther to pistil.
- Producer
- An organism, such as a plant, that makes food.
- Spore
- The tiny cells in a seedless plant that grows into new organisms. Ferms and mosses reproduce by forming these.
- Chlorophyll
- A green substance in plant cells that helps plants make food by trapping the Sun's energy.
- Seed coat
- The outer covering of a seed.
- Seed dispersal
- The movement of a seed from the flower to a place where it can sprout.
- Stamen
- This is the male part of the flower that surrounds the pistil.
- Anther
- This is the part of the stamen tht produces and contains pollen.
- Sepal
- The parts that look like little green leaves that cover the outside of a flower bud to protect the flower before it opens.
- Embryo
- The tiny plant inside a seed.
- Ovule
- The part of the ovary that becomes the seeds
- Seed
- A structure containing a plant embryo that may germinate into a new plant.
- Germination
- When a seed becomes a sprout.
- Dormacy
- a resting or nongrowing state.
- Fertilization
- The joining of pollen with an ovule to form a seed.
- carbon dioxide
- A gas in the air that a plant needs for photosynthesis
- conifer
- A type of plant that produces its seeds in cones
- oxygen
- A gas produced by plants during photosynthesis
- chloroplast
- The part of a plant cell where food is made. Chloroplasts contain chlorophyll.