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A carbohydrate that strengthens plant cell walls

Cellulose

Special leaves

Spines and tendrils

A vascular tissue that carries sap upward

Xylem

Group of trees that produces winged fruits called samaras


Maples

An abscission layer is involved in

Loss of leaves

The purpose of cellular respiration is to

Release energy from food

A plant family that is known for its poisonous members

Cashew

Structural tissue

A type of tissue that is a cork and parenchyma

The largest deciduous tree in America

Sycamore

Cereal grasses

Oats, rye and barley

The creeping, aboveground stem of a grass plant

Stolon

The pressure produced by water within cells

Turgor pressure

Ray flowers

Transpiration

The process by which water vapor is lost from the leaves of plants

Deciduous

Refers to trees that lose their leaves each fall

Two kinds of root systems

Taproot, and fibrosis roots

Sap

Name the liquid found in the roots, stems and leaves of plants

Crown

The bushy head of a tree

Dicot

Leaves, stems, and flowers are part of the _________ system

Shoot

The place where an organism lives is its

Habitat

The stacks of chlorophyll -containing disks inside chloroplasts is

Thylakoids

Plants whose special leaves trap and digest insects are

Insectivorous

Sessile leaf

A leaf that lacks a leafstalk

Herbaceous (plants) or herbs

Refers to nonwoody plants

A leaf having more than one blade on the leafstalk

Compound leaf

Perennials

Based on their life cycles, all trees classified as this

Denitrifying bacteria

Nitrogen in the soil that is returned to the air by

A type of venation

Pinnate

The cause of the behavior when leaves of a particular plant wilt during the day but recover at night.

The plant receives adequate water, but hot temperatures cause rapid transpiration during the day.

Plants are considered autotrophs because

Plants conduct photosynthesis

The plant cannot grow or repair tissue damage is a result of

If a plants meristematic tissue damaged

This onion plant is typically harvested after its first season of growth; if it is allowed to continue growing, it produces flowers in the second season before dying.

Biennial

The role of peak-family plants in the nitrogen cycle is

The pea-family plants' roots provide a place for nitrogen-fixing bacteria to grow.

Grasses are one of the most important groups of plants by

Man and many animals depend directly or indirectly on grasses for most of their food.

A plant cell that is responsible when for this difference happens, when placed in pure water;the cells of humans and animals absorb water and swell until they burst; but the cells of plants absorb water and become firmer without bursting is

Cell wall

Alternate

The least likely to provide a botanist with a good measurement of the rate of photosynthesis is

The Change in the amount of chlorophyll in a leaf

The following changes that would be most likely to affect the rate of photosynthesis is

The covering part of the box with cardboard

A stalk that attaches leaf to stem

Petiole

Middle layer of leaf where majority of photosynthesis occurs

Mesophyll

Large, central vein

Midrib

Openings in the leaf

Stomata

Protects and covers the leaf

Epidermis

ESSAY: "God designed each organ of a flowering plant to help the plant fulfill it's role in nature" is

-flowers let plants reproduce after their own kind, making sure that more plants are always at hand to fulfill their role in what is called nature.


-leaves take in light and bring in carbon dioxide which results in food being produced for the plants through photosynthesis. This results in humans and animals getting the nutrients from the plant