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17 Cards in this Set
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The process plants use to make food for themselves, using light, water and carbon dioxide.
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Photosynthesis
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Several leaflets attached to a single petiole, which is attached to a plant.
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Compound Leaf
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Banana-shaped cells that expand and shrink to open and close the stoma of a leaf.
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Guard Cells
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The entire leaf blade.
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Lamina
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The tiny pores or "mouths" on a leaf or other green part of a plant that take in gases to help make food for the plant.
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Stomata
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The place where a leaf connects to the stem of the plant.
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Petiole
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A living thing that makes its own food, and does not need to consume another living thing to survive.
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Producer
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A living thing that eats other living things to survive.
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Consumer
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A single leaf attached to a plant.
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Simple Leaf
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An invisible gas that plants "exhale" into the air in the process of making food. Humans inhale this gas in order to breathe.
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Oxygen
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The tip of the leaf.
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Apex
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Plants that lose their leaves in the fall and winter.
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Deciduous
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The invisible gas that plants need from the air to make food for themselves.
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Carbon Dioxide
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The green pigment found in all green plants which helps them produce food.
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Chlorophyll
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The outside edge of the leaf.
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Margin
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The process by which water is released from plants into the air.
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Transpiration
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Individual blades on a compound leaf.
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Leaflets
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