Week 3 Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Photosynthesis | Photosynthesis is the process by which plants use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into simple sugars
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| Cellular Respiration | What cells do to break up sugars into a form that the cell can use as energy
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| Chlorophyll | A green pigment that traps energy from the sun
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| Glucose | A simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates
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| Epidermis | The outer layer of cells covering an organism, in particular
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| Stomata | Any of the minute pores in the epidermis of the leaf or stem of a plant, forming a slit of variable width that allows movement of gases in and out of the intercellular spaces
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| Transpiration | The process in plants by which water is taken up by the roots and released as water vapor through stomata in the leaves
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| Carbon Dioxide | A waste product made by cells of the body; a gas in the air made of carbon and oxygen atoms: Humans rid themselves of carbon dioxide waste by exhaling, or breathing out
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| Oxygen | An element that makes up about 21% of Earth's atmosphere; a gas in Earth's atmosphere and in water that living organisms breathe
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| Guard Cells | Each of a pair of curved cells that surround a stoma, becoming larger or smaller according to the pressure within the cells
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| Cellulose | An insoluble substance that is the main constituent of plant cell walls and of vegetable fibers such as cotton. It is a polysaccharide consisting of chains of glucose monomers
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| Tropism | The turning of all or part of an organism in a particular direction in response to an external stimulus
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| Xylem | The vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem
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| Phloem | The vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves
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To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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