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| plant | any living thing that is not an animal |
| leaves | the green parts of a plant that make food for the plant and help the plant breathe |
| stems | the part of a plant that holds up the leaves and flowers and carries water and minerals from the roots to the other parts of the plant |
| roots | the part of a plant that grows down into the earth, holds the plant in place, and soaks up water and minerals from the soil to feed the plant |
| flowers | the part of a plant that makes seeds so there will be more plants |
| seeds | a special hard-shelled package that holds a baby plant and food for this tiny plant to use until it sprouts leaves and can make its own food |
| photosynthesis | the process by which green plants use the energy from sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make food |
| chlorophyll | the green pigment that allows green plants to use sunlight to make food |
| carbon dioxide | a heavy colorless gas in the air absorbed by plants to make food |
| dormancy | a period of inactivity and resting in seeds, buds and plants |
| spore | a single cell that comes from a plant and, like a seed, can grow into a new plant |
| embryo | the tiny plant within a seed |
| sepal | green leaf-like structures that surround and protect a flower bud, collectively called the calyx |
| pistil | the female part of a plant, consisting of a ovary, style, and stigma |
| stamen | a pollen-producting structure of a flower consisting of the filament and anther |
| pollination | to transfer pollen from its site of formation to a receptive surface where it may germinate |
| germinate | to begin to grow or sprout |
| nutrients | material needed for plants to live |
| petals | leaf-like structures of flowers that surround the stamen and pistil, collectively called the corolla |
| stigma | the part of the pistil of a flowering plant that receives the pollen |
| taproot | a large, strong root with very small side roots |
| reproduce | to make more of the same kind |
| conifer | a plant that makes siids inside cones |
| pollen | tiny grains that make seeds when combines with a flower's eggs |
| ovary | bottom part of the pistil in which seeds form |
| ovule | the inner part of an overy that contains an egg |
| fertilization | the combination of material from a pollen grain with an egg to form a seed |
