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GROWING PLANTS
Term | Definition |
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SUN | the star that is the central body of the solar system |
WATER | tasteless liquid compound of hydrogen and oxygen that makes up rain, oceans, lakes, and rivers |
SEEDS | small, hard part of a plant that grows into a new plant |
TREE | plant having a permanently woody trunk and branches |
VITAMINS | a group of substances that are essential to the body in small quantities for normal metabolis |
BRANCH | an armlike division of the stem of a tree |
PLANT | a living thing that usually has stems, leaves, and roots, and grows in the ground |
WATERFALL | a steep fall of water from a height |
MOOR | area of open wasteland, often overgrown with grass and heath |
ROOTS | a part of the body of a plant that develops downward into the soil |
STEM | the part of a plant that grows in an opposite direction to the root and that supports a leaf, flower, or fruit. |
FERTILIZER | any substance used to fertilize the soil, esp. a commercial or chemical manure. |
SOIL | the land surface of the earth that is composed of disintegrated rock particles, humus, water, and air |
SPROUT | when a plant or tree begins to grow |
NUTRIENTS | elements feeding a plant or human being |
ORGANIC | a substance, as a fertilizer or pesticide, of animal or vegetable origin. |
CHEMICAL | Any substance used in or resulting from a reaction involving changes to atoms or molecules |
INORGANIC | not having the structure or characteristics of living organisms; not organic |
PHOTOSYNTHESIS | the production of organic materials from carbon dioxide and water, using sunlight as energy with the aid of chlorophyll |
CLOROPHYLL | Biochemistrythe green substance in plant leaves that produces food by photosynthesis |