Plant Anatomy

Question 1

What do leaves do?

Answer 1

absorb energy from the sun to produce glucose for food

Question 2

What do roots do?

Answer 2

supports the plant and absorbs water and minerals

Question 3

What do flowers do?

Answer 3

attract pollinators to help with pollination

Question 4

What does the stem do?

Answer 4

holds the leaves up and transports minerals

Question 5

Where is the blade and petiole located?

Answer 5

on a leaf

Question 6

What is a blade and what does it do?

Answer 6

Is a broad, flat part of a leaf which provides a large area to capture sunlight.

Question 7

What is petiole and what does it do?

Answer 7

Is the stem part of the leaf which supports the blade and turns it to the sun.

Question 8

What do leaves take in during photosynthesis?

Answer 8

water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide

Question 9

What do leaves produce during photosynthesis?

Answer 9

glucose and oxygen

Question 10

What is a stomata and where is it located?

Answer 10

Is a small (microscopic) hole in the leaves which allows glucose to enter and exit the leaf.

Question 11

What do you call 1 stomata?

Answer 11

stoma

Question 12

What does the stomata let in?

Answer 12

CO2

Question 13

What does the stomata let out?

Answer 13

O2 and H2O

Question 14

What are stomata surrounded by?

Answer 14

guard cells

Question 15

What are guard cells?

Answer 15

Control the opening and closing of the stomata.

Question 16

What happens when the guard cells fill up with water and what happens when they lose water?

Answer 16

When the guard cells fill up with water the stomata opens while when the guard cells lose water the stomata closes.

Question 17

What is the root of a plant called?

Answer 17

the internal anatomy

Question 18

The stem is the ____ of the plant?

Answer 18

highway

Question 19

Does the stem connect the leaves with the roots?

Answer 19

yes

Question 20

What moves up from the roots to the leaves?

Answer 20

water and minerals

Question 21

What moves down from the leaves to the roots?

Answer 21

glucose and nutrients

Question 22

What is located inside a stem?

Answer 22

xylem and phloem

Question 23

What does xylem do?

Answer 23

Xylem carries water, minerals, and nutrients up from the roots.

Question 24

What does phloem do?

Answer 24

Phloem carries nutrients and glucose throughout the plant in all different directions.