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Plant Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pollination | The process of moving pollen from the stamen to the pistil |
| Photosynthesis | the process by which plants use light energy to make sugar or food |
| Xylem | tubes in vascular plants that carry water and other materials from the roots to the rest of the plant |
| Phloem | tubes in vascular plants that carry sugar away from the leaves to the rest of the plant |
| Tropism | a way that plants change their growth because of something effecting them |
| Embryo | a new plant outside the seed |
| Spore | a tiny plant cell that will develop into a new plant |
| Vascular Plants | plants with tubes used to carry water and nutrients throughout the plant |
| Anther | part of the stamen that holds the pollen |
| Stamen | the male part of a flower |
| Angiosperm | a flowering or fruiting plant that has seeds |
| Gymnosperm | a plant that has seeds and produces cones |
| Pistil | the female part of the plant |
| Glucose | the sugar a plant produces during photosynthesis |
| Chloroplasts | green part of a plant cell that uses the energy in the sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugar |
| Compound leaves | leaves that have many leaves coming off a single stem |
| Simple leaves | leaves that have one leaf per stem |
| Pollen | a grainy yellow powder made in a tissue at the top of the stamen of a flower |
| Monocot | a flowering plant with one cotyledon(food part) in their seed |
| Dicot | a flowering plant with two cotyledons(food parts) in their seed |
| Gravitropism | the way a plant grows in relation to gravity; the roots grow downward, being pulled by gravity |
| Phototropism | the way a plant grows in relation to light; the stem will grow towards the light |
| Thigmatropism | the way a plant grows in relation to touching an object; stems will wrap around vines. posts, fences, etc.) |
| Runners | new plants that form off of a plant's own stems; this often happens with house plants and wild grasses |
| Budding | new plants that form from little buds dropping off a plant; these buds grow into many separate plants |
| Stomata | tiny openings, or pores in the leaf that allows gases to leave and enter the leaf; this is needed for photosynthesis to occur |
| Transpiration | the process of water movement in a plant |
| Hydroponics | the process of growing plants in water,sand, or gravel; NOT growing in soil |
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