Plant cells, tissues and organs

Question 1

What are the 4 main parts of a plant?

Answer 1

Flower, Leaves, Stem, Roots

Question 2

What is the main job of the leaves?

Answer 2

Photosynthesis

Question 3

What is the main job(s) of the stem?

Answer 3

Transport things around the plant and to support it

Question 4

What is the main job of the roots?

Answer 4

To absorb water in minerals and water from the soil

Question 5

What is the main job of the flower?

Answer 5

To allow the plant to reproduce

Question 6

What are the parts of the leaf?

Answer 6

Waxy cuticle, Upper epidermic, Palisade mesophyll, Spongy mesophyll, Lower epidermic, Stomata, Guard cells

Question 7

What is transpiration?

Answer 7

When water is lost through the leaves

Question 8

What are xylem?

Answer 8

Tubes of dead cells that transport water through the plant in one direction

Question 9

What are phloem?

Answer 9

Tubes of alive cells that transport food around the plant in both direction

Question 10

What is the symbol equation for photosynthesis?

Answer 10

6CO(2) + 6H(2)O = C(6)H(12)O(6) = 6O(2)

Question 11

What is chlorophyll?

Answer 11

A green substance that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis

Question 12

What are the stomata?

Answer 12

Cells at the bottom of the leaf that allow carbon dioxide to diffuse out of the leaf and oxygen out of the leaf

Question 13

What stomata formed by?

Answer 13

A pair of guard cells