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Vocabulary Word Definition photosynthesis p.48 chlorophyll p.49 sepal p.55 pistil p.55 stamen p.55 ovary p.56 fertilization p.56 dormant p.62 5
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Chapter 2 Lesson 1 What are plants characteristics? page 46-49 1. All living things, including plants are made of. 2. How are a redwood tree and a dandelion different? 3. A redwood tree and a dandelion are both plants made of cells. How can a redwood tree grow to be so much bigger than a dandelion? 4. List things that plants need to live, grow, and reproduce. 5. How are the veins of a plant similar to the veins in a human s body? 6. Photosynthesis is a process where plants use from the sun to convert from the air and from the soil into to feed the plant and is given out in the air 7. What is the name of the material in plants that makes them green? 8
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Chapter 2 Lesson 2 What are plants characteristics? page 50-53 1. What are the three organs in a plant? 2. What is the job of the leaves? 3. Why are most leave flat on top? 4. What are the two functions of stems? 5. Why do large plants have woody instead of flexible stems? 6. Describe the roles that the roots have. 7. Why do roots grow away from the stem? 8. A root system has no main root. 9. List a few examples of plants that have fibrous roots: 11
10. A system has a large main root. 11. Name 3 plants that have a taproot. 12. What is the main difference between fibrous roots and taproots? 12
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Chapter 2 Lesson 3 How do plants reproduce? page 54-57 Scientists classify plants by One of the groups is plants that make seeds. List two examples of plants in this group. Most flowers have four main parts. List the four main parts. What is the main purpose of the petal? What is the job of the sepal? Label the diagram: 14
In order for a seed to form, pollen has to get from a to a. What organisms help to move pollen? What guides an animal to a flower? If pollination does not happen from an animal, name another way it can happen. Name two organisms that depend on the wind for pollination. 15
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Chapter 2 Lesson 4 What is the life cycle of a plant? page 58-65 1.What does a seed need to germinate? 2.Complete the diagram to show the life cycle of a plant. 18
3. Why is it important that seeds get scattered away from their parent plants? 4. List an example of a seed being scattered by the water. 5. List three example of seeds that use the wind as a helper to scatter. 6. Seeds can be scattered by animals three different ways. List the three ways. 7. Even with all of the ways that seeds can be scattered, most of the seeds that plants make (do not grow / grow) in to new plants. 8. What is a spore? 9. What causes a spore to remain dormant? 10. Circle the plant that grows from a spore, not a seed 11. Describe how spores are different from seeds. 19
12. What are ways that plants reproduce without seeds? 13. What is a bulb? 14. Name examples of plants that grow from bulbs. 15. Describe how a strawberry plant can grow from a runner 16. How does grafting take place? 17. Circle the way that you could grow apples without starting from apple seeds 20
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Name: Test date: Directions: Complete the study guide questions. You may use your science book, reading guides, notebook, or any other resource to help you. stamen fern reproduction spore cells taproot carrot photosynthesis 1. All plants, and living things, are made of. 2. The root of a carrot is called a. 3. The function of the is to make pollen for the plant. 4. Plants turn sunlight into energy for. 5. A single tiny cell is called a. 6. Plants make their own food during a process called. 7. An example of a plant that grows from a spore is a. 8. List three things plants need to live. 9. Describe a similarity between a pine needle and a tulip leaf. 10. List the two main jobs that stems do for plants. 24
11. Why do flowers need to make nectar to become pollinated? 12. What structure is labeled A in the picture? 13. Describe the process of photosynthesis. Plants take in,, and, and turn those things into. 14. Compare and contrast taproots and fibrous roots in the Venn Diagram. 25