Vocabulary Words 5.2

Front 1

Carbon Dioxide

Back 1

is one of the gases that make up the air we breath: people and animals exhale carbon dioxide and plants take in carbon dioxide from the air through their leaves

Front 2

Oxygen

Back 2

the colorless, ordorless, tasteless gas that makes up the air we breath; people and animals inhale oxygen and plants leave off oxygen

Front 3

Glucose

Back 3

the plant's food; the Sun's energy, along with carbon dioxide and water, combine to form this sugar in the plant's leaves

Front 4

Photosynthesis

Back 4

the process that a plant uses to make its own food; a plant needs three things to make its own food-carbon dioxide, water, and light energy

Front 5

Respiration

Back 5

when a plant uses its own food and oxygen to release energy

Front 6

Chlorophyll

Back 6

the green pigment compound in plants that captures the sunlight and makes food out of water and carbon dioxide

Front 7

Seedling

Back 7

a young plant grown from a seed

Front 8

pollination

Back 8

the transfer of pollen from the stamen to the stigma of a flowering plant

Front 9

Reproduction

Back 9

the process that allows a plant to make more of its own kind

Front 10

Pollen

Back 10

tiny grains on the stamen of a flower