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Name the process by which plants use energy from the sun to produce food.
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Photosynthesis
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What is the name of the pigment which absorbs light in the chloroplasts of a plant cell?
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Chlorophyll
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How does a plant get the carbon dioxide that it needs?
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Through the stomata. Guard cells allow the carbon dioxide into the stomata
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What is the name given to the process of a plant breaking glucose down in order to release energy?
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Cellular Respiration
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When the stomata are open, what happens?
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Carbon Dioxide goes in and Oxygen goes out
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What is transpiration?
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The loss of water vapor through a plant's stomata....makes plants wilt it they lose more water through transpiration than they absorb through their roots.
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What's the status of a plant's stomata during the night? Why?
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They close at night to conserve water.
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What's the status of a plant's stomata during the day?
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They open sot the plant can photosynthesize and allow transpiration,
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What's the term used to describe the movement of materials through a plant?
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Transport
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Where does root pressure occur? What is root pressure?
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Root pressure occurs in the xylem of the roots. This is how plants transport water from the roots to the stem
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Where does capillary action occur? What is it?
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This is occurs in the stem after root pressure, the water in the stem is transported to the top parts of the plants.
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