botanist What is a scientist
who studies plants
called?
botany What is the
study of plants?
oxygen Which is a colorless, odorless
gas in the air that is needed
for most living things to stay
alive?
carbon What is colorless, odorless
dioxide gas in the air that people and
animals breathe out of their
lungs?
photosynthesis What is the process in which
plants use water, carbon
dioxide, and sunlight to make
food?
chlorophyll What is the green
coloring in plants?
microscopic What means too small
to be seen without a
microscope?
cell What is the smallest,
basic unit of all living
things?
microscope What is an instrument that
uses lenses and light to make
it easier for people to see
small objects?
cell What is the thin
membrane covering of a cell?
nucleus What is the control
center of a cell?
cytoplasm What is the jelly-like
material that fills the
inside of a cell?
cell wall What is the stiff layer
outside the cell membrane
of a plant cell?
chloroplasts What are tiny green
parts inside a plant
cell?
pollinator What is an insect or
animal that caries the
pollen to the pistil?
petals What are the outside
parts of flower that
attracts pollinators?
stamen What is the part of
the flower that
produces pollen?
pollen What is the fine powder
in a flower that is needed
to make seeds?
pistil What is the part of
the flower where
seeds are formed?
pollination What is the process by
which pollen is carried
to the pistil of a flower?
plant What means using a part
propagation of the plant to increase
the number of that plant?
germinate What word means a
seed has begun to
grow?
plant cuttings What are parts of a plant
such as leaf, stem, or root
that can grow another plant?
plant division What is splitting apart
a plant to produce
new plants?
heredity What is the passing of
characteristics from
parent to offspring?
hybrid What is a plant that
has parents of different
varieties or kinds?