| A | B |
|---|
| Tropism | The directional response plants make to a stimulus |
| Geotropism | Response to gravity |
| Phototropism | Response to light |
| Negative | Response away from a stimulus |
| Positive | Response towards a stimulus |
| Water and minerals | Found by plant roots when they grow down |
| Light | Found by plant shoots when they grow up, out of the soil |
| xylem | vascular tissue that transports water and minerals |
| phloem | vascular tissue that transports nutrients |
| non-vascular | lacks true roots, xylem, phloem, leaves and stems |
| vascular | contains xylem, phloem, leaves, stems and roots |
| angiosperm | flowering plants with seeds enclosed by endospore |
| gymnosperm | conifers, plants with seeds without endospore |
| seedless vascular | plants without flowers or cones |
| spores | used for reproduction in plants lacking seeds. |
| pistil | female reproductive organ of flowers |
| stamen | male reproductive organ of flowers |
| cross-pollination | pollen from another flower fertilizes a 2nd flower |
| self-pollination | flower fertilizes itself. |
| heterotroph | organism that depends on other organisms for food |
| autotroph | organisms that synthesize food for themselves |
