Roots and stems and plants Flashcards
Any of the thread like projections from a plant root that absorb water and dissolved minereals from the soil
root cap
A thin covering made up of cells that protect the root tip of a plant as it grows into the soil
root hair
The layer of tissue just inside the epidermis of a plants roots and stems
epidermis
An outermost layer of such plant parts as roots and leaves
cortext
The tissue through which water and minerals move up through a plant
xylem
he loss of water through a plants leaves
transpiration
The layer in plants that seprates the xylem from the phloem
cambium
The food making process in green plants that uses sunlight
photosynthesis
The realeases of energy in plants and animales from food {sugar}
respiration
something in the envormeat that causes a living thing to react
response
What a living thing does as a result of a stimulus
stimulus
a responce of a plant toward or away from a stimulus
tropism
a charicteristic that enables a living thing t survive in its envorement
adaption