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34 Cards in this Set
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What is the biggest living plant on earth? |
Giant sequoia |
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What is one of the smallest plants? |
Diatom |
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What is photosynthesis? |
when green plants use the suns energy to change water into carbon Dioxide and sugars |
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Chlorophyll |
is green coloring that helps plants make their own food |
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what are some seeds we eat? |
corn rice wheat |
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Some plants we eat are? |
Roots leaves stems flowers and fruits |
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What are the parts of the tree? |
crown trunk roots |
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How can you tell the age of a tree? |
By counting the Annual rings of a tree |
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What is a needle leaf tree? |
Trees with very narrow leaves and are needle like or scale like |
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What does deciduous mean? |
Falling down |
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How can you tell if a tree is an oak tree? |
if the tree has ACRONS |
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What kind of fruit does a Maple tree make? |
Keys |
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What is the biggest leaf in the world? |
Raffia palm |
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what is the most useful type of palm? |
the coconut palm |
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What is a flowers purpose? |
To glorify their creator to bring enjoyment to man to provide pollen and nectar to other animals to produce seeds and to provide food for man and animals |
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What is pollination? |
when animals move from flower to flower picking up and leaving pollen |
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what is a weed? |
is any plant that grows where it is not wanted |
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what does every seed contain? |
a new living plant |
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What are the three main parts of a seed? |
embryo stored food and the seed coat |
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What is an embryo? |
the new plant |
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what does stored food do for plants? |
protects the young plant, until it is able to make its own food |
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What is a seed coat? |
it protects the embryo from injury until it is time for it to sprout |
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True or False Can wind move seeds? |
true |
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What are hitchhiking seeds? |
Cockleburs burdocks and beggar ticks |
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What does dormant mean? |
this means that seeds are alive but not growing |
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what does germinate mean? |
a plant is ready to sprout |
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What are the three things a seed needs in order to germinate? |
Water oxygen right temperature |
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What is the first root of a seed called? |
A primary root |
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Why can't a mushroom produce its own food? |
because it doesn't have chlorophyll |
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Leaves of three________________ |
Let it be |
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What is the poison in tobacco? |
nicotine |
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What is Penicillin? |
a life saving antibiotic that is produced from a green mold |
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What is fungi? |
Plants that cannot make their own food, because they don't have chlorophyll |
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what is agriculture? |
the science of farming |
