1. Plants Review

2. ___________ is when leaves make food for the plant using water, sunlight, carbon dioxide and chlorophyll. Answer: photosynthesis

3. The four basic parts of a plant are ________. Answer: roots, stem, leaf, flower

4. I act like a straw and suck up the water and nutrients from the soil. Answer: roots

5. I act like an elevator, carrying the water and nutrients up to the leaf. I also support the flower. Answer: stem

6. I am the kitchen of the plant. I make the food for the plant. Answer: leaf

7. I attract pollinators with my bright colors and fragrant smell. Answer: petal

8. The factory of the plant were the seeds are made is called the ___________. Answer: flower

9. The part of the flowering plant that protects the seed. Answer: fruit

10. This is a diagram of the ______ and ________ part of flower. Answer: male, female

11. The ______ is the sticky part of the plant that catches the pollen used to fertilize the egg. Answer: stigma

12. The ______ holds up the stigma and transports the pollen down to the ovary. Answer: style

13. The ______ produces and holds the pollen grains until a pollinator takes it and drops it onto the sticky stigma. Answer: anther

14. The ______ supports the anther. Answer: filament

15. The ______ protects the flower until it is ready to bloom. Answer: sepal

16. When a seed comes to life and starts to grow or sprout. Answer: germination

17. What are some ways a seed can travel? Answer: wind, rain, water, animals, and people

18. Any living thing is called an ____________. Answer: organism

19. Plants are considered producers because they can ___________. Answer: make their own food

20. The diagram shows the ______ ______ of a flowering plant. Answer: life cycle

21. The three basic part of a seed are the ___________. Answer: seed coat, stored food (cotyledon), and embryo

22. Plants are important because ___________. Answer: they provide food and shelter some medicines are made from plants trees give lumber and other products they produce oxygen