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Plants Part 2
Plant parts 2 and spores
Question | Answer |
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What do leaves give off? | water and oxygen |
What are the root's jobs? | to hold the plant in the ground and to take minerals, oxygen, and water from the soil for the plants to use |
What are the root's "mouth"? | root hairs |
What other jobs do the roots do? | They prevent soil erosion by holding the soil in place. |
What is the flower's job? | to make seeds |
What is the stem's job? | to hold the plant up and carry water and food from the roots to the leaves |
What is the leaf's job? | to make food for the plant |
What is a spore? | a single cell produced in some plants instead of flowers and seeds |
Where are spores found? | in spore cases |
Does a spore contain food like a seed? | no |
What is necessary before a spore can grow into a new plant? | It must fall in a moist, shady place where it can find food. |
How is mold harmful? | It grows on food. |
How is mold helpful? | A special green mold produces the medicine penicillin and other molds make some cheeses. |
Name other plants which grow from spores. | yeast, mushrooms, mosses |
True or False. A spore has a young plant and food inside it. | false, seeds have a young plant and food inside it not a spore. |
True or False. All plants that grow from spores are harmful. | false, some spores make cheeses, medicine and others become food like mushrooms and yeast for bread. |
True or False. All plants that have flowers make seeds. | true |
True or False. Moss is made of many tiny plants. | true |
Yes or No. The root's job is to make seeds. | no, its job is to hold the plant in the ground and to take minerals, oxygen, and water from the soil for the plant to use. |
Yes or No. Pollination is the act of moving water from one part of the flower to another part. | yes, or from one flower to another, so that the flower can make seed. |
Yes or No. The stem's job is to make food for the plant. | no, its job is to hold the plant up and to carry water and minerals from the root and leaves. |
Yes or No. Plants give off oxygen, which is what people and animals must breath in order to live. | yes |
Yes or No. Root hairs are the part of the roots which take the minerals, water, and oxygen from the soil. | yes, they are like the "mouths" |
Yes or No. You can take a cutting from a plant and grow a new plant from it. | yes |
Yes or No. Do pine trees have leaves? | yes, the needles are its leaves |
Yes or No. Plants need carbon dioxide to live. | yes |
Yes or No. Moss is a plant that grows from spores. | yes |