Plants

Question 1

What is photosynthesis

Answer 1

The process of plants making their own food using water and carbon dioxide using energy from light

Question 2

What does the waxy cuticle do

Answer 2

Prevents water being lost from the top of the leaf

Question 3

What do upper and lower epidermis do

Answer 3

Thin layers that support and protect the leaf

Question 4

Palisade mesophyll

Answer 4

The layer near the top of the leaf so that the palisade cells get plenty of light

Question 5

What is inside the palisade mesophyll

Answer 5

Chloroplasts/chlorophyll

Question 6

Spongy mesophyll

Answer 6

Irregularly shaped cells that provide air spaces that allow gases to diffuse to and from the cell

Question 7

Chloroplasts

Answer 7

Structures in the cells where photosynthesis takes place

Question 8

Guard cells

Answer 8

Cells that can change shape and open or close the stomata to help gas exchange.

Question 9

Stomata

Answer 9

Tiny holes mainly in the lower surface of the leaf where gas exchange occurs

Question 10

Xylem

Answer 10

Vessels that bring water to the leaf and help in support as they have thick walls

Question 11

Phloem

Answer 11

Tubes that transport the glucose formed during photosynthesis to other parts of the plant.

Question 12

Petal

Answer 12

Attracts insects for pollination

Question 13

Sepal

Answer 13

Protects the flower when it is in bud

Question 14

Anther

Answer 14

Produces the pollen

Question 15

Filament

Answer 15

Supports the anther

Question 16

Stamen

Answer 16

The male part of the flower which consists of the anther and filament

Question 17

Stigma

Answer 17

The female part of the flower that receives the pollen

Question 18

Style

Answer 18

Supports the stigma and the part that the pollen tube grows down to fertilise the egg

Question 19

Ovary

Answer 19

Contains the ovules

Question 20

Ovule

Answer 20

Contains the eggs

Question 21

Carpels

Answer 21

The female part of the flower which consists of stigma, style and ovary