Plant - Science

Question 1

What are scientists that study plants called?

Answer 1

Botanist

Question 2

What does variety mean?

Answer 2

mix of different types

Question 3

What are plant roots?

Answer 3

Grow underground and take in water and nutrients from the soil.

Question 4

What are taproot

Answer 4

Taproots have one main root. Carrots and radishes are taproots.

Question 5

What do stems do?

Answer 5

Carry water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves and other parts of the plant.

Question 6

What is a bulb?

Answer 6

Underground bud that contains stem.

Question 7

What is a tuber?

Answer 7

A thick underground stem.

Question 8

Give an example of a tuber?

Answer 8

Potato.

Question 9

What do plant have in dry habitats?

Answer 9

Narrow thick leaves that store water.

Question 10

How desert plant leave keep water in?

Answer 10

They close their tiny holes on their leaves.

Question 11

How do plants make food?

Answer 11

They use air, water and energy from sun to make food.

Question 12

What is the process called when plants make energy from sun?

Answer 12

Photosynthesis

Question 13

Where does photosynthesis take place?

Answer 13

In the plant’s leaves

Question 14

Photosynthesis is a process for plants to make their own ________

Answer 14

food

Question 15

This process takes place in a plant’s ______________.

Answer 15

leaves

Question 16

Plants take in air and water and use energy from the _____________ to make food.

Answer 16

sun

Question 17

What is petal?

Answer 17

A soft colorful part of a flower,

Question 18

How do flowers make seeds?

Answer 18

Through a process called pollination.

Question 19

What is pollination

Answer 19

Transfer of pollen from one flower to another

Question 20

Good designed flowers to attract _____________

Answer 20

Pollinators.

Question 21

Which part of the flower attract pollinators to the flower?

Answer 21

Petals

Question 22

What are the four parts of a flower? (You have to know where they are on the flower)

Answer 22

stamen, petal, sepal, pistil

Question 23

What is a sepal?

Answer 23

Special leaf that protects the flower bud as it grows

Question 24

What does stamen do?

Answer 24

Produces pollen

Question 25

How do pollinators transfer pollen between flowers?

Answer 25

As pollinators drink nectar from the flower, they brush against the stamen. The pollen from the stamen sticks to the pollinators body, and the pollinator carries it to the next flower.

Question 26

What is a pistil

Answer 26

Center of the flower. Where seeds are formed.

Question 27

What is stigma

Answer 27

The top part of the pistil

Question 28

List the 6 steps of pollination?

Answer 28

1. The flowers stamens produce pollen 2. The pollinator flies to the flower to test the nectar 3. The pollinator brushes against the stamen. Some pollen sticks to its body 4. The pollinator flies to another flower, It brushes against the pistil and the pollen falls of the stigma. 5. The pollen travels down the style to the ovary 6. The ovary makes a seed inside fruit.

Question 29

What is the step called by which pollen is carried from one flower to another?

Answer 29

Pollination.