SCIENCE 8 | TERM 1 | 1.2 | PLANT TRANSPORT SYSTEM

Absorbs and anchor

Roots

Makes the food for the plant

Leaves

Transports and support

Stem

Reproductive part of the plant

Flower

Protects the seeds

Fruit

Contains the embryo

Seed

Plant that grows on other stems that shares with the main plant and gets water from it

Epiphytes

The process of plants making food by using sunlight water and carbon dioxide

Photosynthesis

Where plants grow in reaction to sunlight for exposed to the sun

Phototropism

This means light

Photo

It crossed directly to sunlight so basically upwards

Positive phototropism

Plants grow downward

Negative phototropism

The outer part of the leaf

Lamina or leaf blade

The stack that attaches or acts like the bridge the leaf to the stem

Petiole

Main vain and the center that provide support

Middrib

The thin lines inside the leave that carry water and nutrients throughout the leaf

Veins

Carries water and minerals

Xylem

Carries the food or glucose

Phloem

The male part of the flower

Stamen

Produces pollen

Anther

Supports the anther

Filament

Sticky tip that receives pollen

Stigma

Contains all of you that develops into seeds after fertilization

Ovaries

Tube that connects the stigma to the ovary

Style

The process of transforming pollen from one flower to another

Pollination

Process which plant lose water to tiny openings called stomata

Transpiration

The living things or agents that help move the pollen

Pollinators

Force on the roots that pushes water upward through the xylem

Root pressure

Special tube only found in the phloem

Sieve tube

Specialized cells that surround the stomata, what indicates the stomata to close or open

Guard cell

Tiny force mostly found on the underside of the leaves

Stomata

What happens if the stomata is closed

It releases oxygen and water

What happens if the stomata is open

It absorbs carbon dioxide

The movement of water through very narrow spaces or tiny tubes without needing a pump

Capillary action