Plant unit-Grade 3
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- Name the three important things a stem does.
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1. Hold up the plant.
2. Carry water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant.
3. Carry sugars from the leaves to the rest of the plant.
- What is a seedling?
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a young plant that grows from a seed.
- Germination
- first stage of a plant's life cycle
- What is a mineral?
- a natural, nonliving material that can be found in soil.
- Define pollinate.
- To carry pollen to the stemlike part of a flower.
- What is pollen?
- A fine, yellowish powder in a flower.
- Define germinate.
- To begin to grow and develop.
- carbon dioxide
- a gas in the air that plants use to make food
- Define life cycle.
- The stages in the life of a living thing.
- What is a petal
- an outside part of a flower that is often colored.
- What is a conifer?
- a tree or shrub that has cones
- seedling
- second stage in a plant's life cycle.
- What are three ways seeds can travel?
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1.Float on water.
2.Wind
3.Carried by humans or animals - What are the two important jobs of the roots of a plant?
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1. Take water and minerals form the soil.
2. Hold the plant in the ground. - How do leaves make sugar for the plant?
- They absorb Carbon dioxide and sunlight and mix them with water and minerals to make sugar.
- What are the three parts of a seed
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1. food storage
2. embryo
3. seed coat
- growth and pollination
- Third stage of the plant's life cycle.