| A | B |
|---|
| Xylem | moves water and nurtients up from the roots |
| Phloem | Transports food from the leave throughout the plant |
| Succulent | Type of plant native to a dry climate, stores water |
| Botanist | studies plants |
| Controlled Experiment | where all variables are kept the same and one thing is changed |
| Epidermis | outer covering of a plant |
| Stomata | openings in a leaf cell that open and close to let gases and water vapor in and out |
| Cuticle | Waxy coating that helps plants keep water in |
| Photosynthesis | How a plant makes food |
| Transpiration | How a plant breathes and releases water vapor into the air |
| Chloroplasts | Photosynthesis factories in plant cells |
| Taproot | Has one major large root |
| Fibrous roots | a complex branching root system |
| Roots | Anchor the Plant |
| Stems | Contain the Circulatory system of plants |
| Leaves | Capture sunlight for the plant to make food |
| Herbaceous | stem that is green and flexible like a dandilion |
| Woody | stem that is brown, dark, and hard to break..like a pine tree |
| annual | plants that survive one growing season in a particular area |
| Optimum conditions | The best possible place for an organism to live |
| deciduous | woody plants that drop their leaves before winter |
| Producers | make their own food using photosynthesis |
| carbon dioxide | gas humans breathe out and plants take in |
| Oxygen | gas plants give off and humans take in |
| conifer | plant that produces needle like leaves |
| dormant | for plants this means active growth stops due to a change in season |
| evergreen | plants that don't lose their leaves. |
| perrinial | plants that complete a life cyycle in one season and resume growth again for more than one year. |
| cone | reproductive body of conifers |
| dichotomous key | a key to identify organisms based on a series of true or false questions |
| conifer | cone bearing tree or shrub |
