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34 Cards in this Set
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Woody stem |
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Front (Term) Vascular Tissue |
Back (Definition) Tissue made up of tiny tubes |
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Front (Term) Phloem |
Back (Definition) vascular tissue that carries food made in the leaves to other parts of the plant |
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Pollen and Eggs |
Two things needed for seed plants to reproduce |
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Seed |
A structure that contains a young plant in a protective covering |
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If a seed lands where conditions are favorable, the plant sprouts and begins to grow |
How do seeds become new plants? |
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Embryo |
Fertilized seed |
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Roots, stems, leaves |
What embryos are the beginnings of |
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Food stored |
What the embryo uses for eating until it can photosynthesize |
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Cotylendons |
seed leaves in an embryo |
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seed coat |
outer covering of a seed that protects embryo and food from drying out |
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Embryo |
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Animal dispersal |
seeds are eaten and deposited in other areas by the organism or seeds hook on to the organism and travel to where it goes |
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Water dispersal |
Seeds dispersed by rivers lakes and rain |
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Wind dispersal |
Seeds blown about by the wind |
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Plant force or ejection dispersal |
plants ejects seeds by popping them out of the plant |
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Parachutes on dandelions |
Adaptation to help with wind dispersal |
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Coconuts can float |
adaptation to help with water dispersal |
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Barbs on those bush seeds |
Adaptation to help with animal dispersal |
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dormant/ inactive |
a seed may remain _____ before it germinates |
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germination |
when an embryo begins to grow and pushed out of the seed |
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seedling |
embryos first roots and leaves grow once plants seeds are visible it's called this |
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survival |
a seed has a better chance of this if dispersed further from its parent |
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light, water, nutrients |
things plants compete for |
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Seedling |
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to anchor a plant in the ground, absorb water and minerals from soil and sometimes store food |
function of the root |
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fibrous root |
consists of many similar sized roots that form a dense tangled mass and take up much soul when pulled from the ground |
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taproot |
one long, thick main root with many smaller roots branching off and hard to pull out of the ground |
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root cap |
tip of the root is surrounded by the |
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root cap does this |
protects the plant as it grows through the soil |
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root hairs |
grow out of the roots surface to absorb water and nutrients also help anchor plant |
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xylem tubes |
collect absorbed water and nutrients and carry to the stem and leaves |
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xylem tubes |
collect absorbed water and nutrients and carry to the stem and leaves |
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phloem tubes |
transport food to the root to be used for the plant to grow or be stored |
