Photosynthesis
The process in which leaves absorb sunlight and turn it into the energy for plants.
Palisades and Spongy Cells
The cells that transport water and carbon dioxide throughout the plant.
Xylem
The tissue in the plants that transports water.
Chloroplasts
The cells that absorb chlorophyll.
Glucose
The sugar that plants make during the process of photosynthesis.
Stomata
The little openings in a leaf to breath in carbon dioxide and breath out oxygen.
Hydroponics
Any means in which a plant grows without soil.
Carbohydrate
Glucose
Stem's function
They support the plant and transport nutrients and water.
Why are plants special?
They have the ability to make their own food.
Root's function
They grow hairs to absorb nutrients and soil.
Reproduction
They drop their seeds.
What do Shoots search for?
They head upward in search of light.
Chlorophyll
The part that plants use to make food during Photosynthesis
Parasites
The plants that do not make their own food.
Parasites' strategy
They wrap their stems around another plant and suck water out of the plants.
Pollination
A flower helps the plant reproduce
Pistil
The female part that holds the eggs
Stamen
The little branch that holds the pollen at the end
Seeds
Undeveloped plants with stored food in a protective covering
Vascular plants
Plants that have veins that transport their water and nutrients
Phloem
A vein system that transports sugar
Perennials
Plants that live for many growing flower seasons and reproduce many times
Annuals
Plants live up to 2 growing seasons and they reproduce only once
Germinate
Reproduce
Pollin
Stuff at the end of the stamen
Vascular
Veins
Sources of Nutrients
Soil/photosynthesis
Angiosperms
Plants that produce flowers and fruit
Gymnosperms
Plants that don't produce flowers and fruit
Evergreens
Trees that stay green all year long
Plants
They produce oxygen and suck carbon dioxide out of the air
What we get from plants
cotton/food/soap
Spores
reproduce cells used by seedless plants
Nonvascular
without veins
Fronds
leaves that uncurl into a leaf and release spores
Producers
plants that can make their own food
Consumers
plants that eat other plantd
Horticulture
an area of science that deals with plant cultivation
Windowfarms
a hydroponic gardening orginazation that focuses on urban area
Aquaponics
takes hydroponics to the next level by raising fish and other aquatic organisms in the water supply
Epiphytes
grow on other plants like trees and gather their nutrition from the air and rain
Growth
increase in size, abundance, or complexity
Material
the matter from which a thing is or can be made
Weight
the heaviness of an object; force of gravity on mass
Conservation of Matter
Matter cannot be created or destroyed
System
a group of interacting or independent parts forming a complex whole
Organism
a single self-contained living thing
Air and Water
two main things plants need to grow
Phytoromediation
Using plants to absorb toxic material and water through their roots.