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Flowering Plants Flashcards

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1
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The anchor and support in the soil, absorbs water

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Root

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Supports and holds up flower, transports food and water

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Stem

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Uses photosynthesis to make food, allows gasses to pass in and out.

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Leaves

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4
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Produces seeds so the plant can reproduce

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Flower

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Allows new flowers and leaved to grow

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Bud

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Protects and provides food for seeds

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Fruit

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The process in which green plants make food using light energy

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Photosynthesis

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Found in chloroplasts in plant cells

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Chlorophyll

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What holds chlorophyll

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Anything green

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Passes into leaves through stomata

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Carbon dioxide

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Enters from soil through roots

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Water

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12
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Absorbed by leaves from the sun

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Light

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A green pigment made by plants to absorb light and make photosynthesis

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Chlorophyll

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The change in growth of a plant in response to an outside stimulus. 😏😏

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Tropism

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The way in which a plant changes growth in response to light

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Phototropism

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The way in which a plant changes growth in response to gravity

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Geotropism

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The controlled release of energy from food

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Respiration

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Respiration that requires oxygen

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Aerobic Respiration

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Respiration that does not require oxygen

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Anaerobic respiration

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Used to attract insects into the flower, may be scented

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Petals

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Protects bud and attracts insects, may be coloured

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Sepal

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Produces male gamete (sex cell)

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Stamen

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Produces female gamete (sex cell)

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Carpel

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The transfer of pollen grains from an anther to a stigma

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Pollination

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Insects who visit the flower in order to get pollen for food

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Insect pollination

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Blows the pollen from one flower to another

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Wind pollination

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Occurs when male and female parts of flower are ripe at the same time

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Self Pollination

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The union of the pollen grain nucleus and egg nucleus

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Fertilisation

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After fertilisation the egg develops into a seed, parent plant provides food

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Fruit and seed development

30
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The resumption of growth after a period of dormancy

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Germination

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