Science

Question 1

What do seeds do

Answer 1

They are structures that contain a young plant inside a protective covering

Question 2

What is embryo

Answer 2

Young plant has a beginning of roots stems and leaves

Question 3

What is a cotyledon

Answer 3

Stores food uses food until photosynthesis can occur

Question 4

What is a seedcoat

Answer 4

Protects embryo and it’s food for drying out

Question 5

What is dormancy

Answer 5

A period of inactivity which can be many years in which a seed is protected by its seedcoat and can withstand harsh conditions such as extreme hot or cold with little or no water

Question 6

What is germination

Answer 6

In the right condition the seed begins to grow and sprout roots and stems

Question 7

Can animals you sunlight to make food

Answer 7

No autotroph’s specifically plants are organisms that convert or change sunlight into energy

Question 8

What is the ultimate source of energy for living things

Answer 8

The sun

Question 9

What is photosynthesis

Answer 9

The process of using light to make sugar

Question 10

What is photosynthesis required to have

Answer 10

Other than sunlight and chlorophyll carbon dioxide CO2 and water H2O

Question 11

What is the photosynthesis equation

Answer 11

Carbon dioxide plus water sunlight chlorophyll glucose plus oxygen

Question 12

What are photosynthesis end products

Answer 12

Food glucose and waste oxygen

Question 13

What do leaves do

Answer 13

Captures suns energy and uses it to make food for the plant

Question 14

What does chloroplast do

Answer 14

Traps energy and sunlight and uses it to make gluecose

Question 15

What does Xylem do

Answer 15

Carries water between roots and leaves

Question 16

What does phloem do

Answer 16

Food in the form of glucose made during photosynthesis travels throughout the plant

Question 17

What does the stomata do

Answer 17

Openings in the leaf where CO2 enters and oxygen and water vapor exits

Question 18

What do stems do

Answer 18

Carries substances between the roots and leaves provides support for the plant and holds leaves so that they are exposed to the sun

Question 19

What is herbaceous

Answer 19

Soft stems (dandelions herbs tomatoes)

Question 20

What is a woody

Answer 20

Hard and rigid stems (Rosebush oak tree maple tree)

Question 21

What are roots used for

Answer 21

Anchor the plant in ground absorbs water and nutrients and serves as a storage area for starch

Question 22

What are root hairs used for

Answer 22

Increases roots surface area within the soil so that more nutrients and H2O are absorbed

Question 23

Seed plants

Answer 23

Use seeds to reproduce
have leaves stems and roots
produce much of the oxygen we breathe