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Plants Review

Habitat, Adaptations, living/nonliving

Question: Is a car living or non living?
Answer: Non Living

Question: Is a plant living or non living?
Answer: Living

Question: Describe the habitat for a coniferous tree.
Answer: Cold, dry - or a place that may have 4 different seasons!

Question: Describe the habitat for a cactus:
Answer: Hot, dry

Question: What kind of adaptations does a cactus make to survive in the desert? Name at least one.
Answer: 1. Absorbs and stores water in its stem.

2. Has hard needles to absorb moisture.

3. Grows farther away from other plants to absorb more moisture from the ground.

Plant Structures

Question: What do the roots do?

a) turn the sun's energy into food for the plant

b) carry water up to the leaves

c) absorb water and nutrients from the soil

Answer: c

Question: What does the stem do?

a) turn the sun's energy into food for the plant

b) carry water up to the leaves

c) absorb water and nutrients from the soil

Answer: b

Question: What do the leaves do?

a) turn the sun's energy into food for the plant

b) carry water up to the leaves

c) absorb water and nutrients from the soil

Answer: a

Question: Why do plants need seeds?
Answer: So that more plants can grow from old plants!

Question: What special cells do leaves have on them that change the sun's energy into food? It also makes leaves green!

c _ l _ _ o _ _ _ _ _

Answer: chlorophyll

Stations

Question: What was the mystery plant called?
Answer: Onion

Question: Why did the leaves turn red?

You must explain more than just saying "The water was red"

Answer: The stem was sucking up the water to the leaves.

Question: How can you tell how old a tree is?
Answer: Count the rings inside the stem!

Question: What side of the leaves faced the sun?

Dark Green

Light Green

Answer: Dark Green - that's the Chlorophyll!

Question: What kind of root was the onion?

Taproot

Fibrous Root

Answer: Taproot

Trees

Question: What type of tree has cones?
Answer: coniferous tree

evergreen tree

Question: Describe the leaves of a coniferous tree.
Answer: needles or needle-like

Question: What is one similarity that coniferous and deciduous trees share?
Answer: woody stems

both grow in Minnesota

both can survive the winter (but in different ways)

Question: What is one difference between coniferous and deciduous trees?
Answer: Deciduous trees lose their leaves - their leaves turn color and fall off in autumn.

Coniferous trees have cones and needles that stay on all year.

Coniferous trees are green all year long (evergreen)

Question: How does a deciduous tree stay living through the winter?
Answer: The leaves stop making chlorophyll, the tree goes "dormant" and the leaves fall off.

Bonus

Question: What part of an onion do we eat?
Answer: The roots!

Question: How can you tell a tree's age?
Answer: count the rings!

Question: What makes a leaf green?
Answer: Chlorophyll

Question: What part of celery do we eat (hint: you use it to make ants on a log).
Answer: The stem!

Question: What is the PROCESS called that leaves perform to turn the sun's energy into food?
Answer: photosynthesis