{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/bio-plants",
 "id": "bio-plants",
 "title": "Plant Science",
 "category": "science",
 "subject": "Biology",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Plant parts, processes and types.",
 "tags": [
  "plants",
  "botany"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Term",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Roots",
   "Anchor the plant and take in water and minerals"
  ],
  [
   "Stem",
   "Holds the plant up and carries water and food"
  ],
  [
   "Leaf",
   "The main place where a plant makes food"
  ],
  [
   "Flower",
   "The part of a plant that makes seeds"
  ],
  [
   "Fruit",
   "A ripened ovary that holds seeds"
  ],
  [
   "Seed",
   "Holds a baby plant and food to start growing"
  ],
  [
   "Petal",
   "Colorful part of a flower that attracts pollinators"
  ],
  [
   "Sepal",
   "Green leaf-like part that protects a flower bud"
  ],
  [
   "Stamen",
   "Male part of a flower that makes pollen"
  ],
  [
   "Anther",
   "Top of the stamen that holds pollen"
  ],
  [
   "Filament",
   "The stalk that holds up the anther"
  ],
  [
   "Pistil",
   "Female part of a flower"
  ],
  [
   "Stigma",
   "Sticky top of the pistil that catches pollen"
  ],
  [
   "Style",
   "Tube that connects the stigma to the ovary"
  ],
  [
   "Ovary",
   "Part of the pistil that holds the ovules"
  ],
  [
   "Ovule",
   "Part of the ovary that becomes a seed"
  ],
  [
   "Pollen",
   "Tiny grains that carry male cells of plants"
  ],
  [
   "Pollination",
   "Moving pollen to the female part of a flower"
  ],
  [
   "Pollinator",
   "An animal such as a bee that moves pollen"
  ],
  [
   "Fertilization",
   "When male and female cells join to start a seed"
  ],
  [
   "Germination",
   "When a seed begins to grow"
  ],
  [
   "Photosynthesis",
   "Plants turn light, water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen"
  ],
  [
   "Chlorophyll",
   "Green pigment that captures light"
  ],
  [
   "Stomata",
   "Tiny leaf openings that let gases in and out"
  ],
  [
   "Guard cells",
   "Cells that open and close the stomata"
  ],
  [
   "Transpiration",
   "Water evaporating from leaves"
  ],
  [
   "Xylem",
   "Tubes that carry water up from the roots"
  ],
  [
   "Phloem",
   "Tubes that carry sugar through the plant"
  ],
  [
   "Taproot",
   "One thick main root, like a carrot"
  ],
  [
   "Fibrous roots",
   "Many thin roots, like grass"
  ],
  [
   "Root hairs",
   "Tiny extensions that absorb water"
  ],
  [
   "Cotyledon",
   "A seed leaf that stores food in the seed"
  ],
  [
   "Monocot",
   "A flowering plant with one seed leaf, like corn and grass"
  ],
  [
   "Dicot",
   "A flowering plant with two seed leaves, like beans"
  ],
  [
   "Angiosperm",
   "A plant that makes flowers and fruits"
  ],
  [
   "Gymnosperm",
   "A plant with seeds not in fruit, like pine trees"
  ],
  [
   "Conifer",
   "A tree that makes cones, such as pine or spruce"
  ],
  [
   "Deciduous",
   "A tree that loses its leaves each fall"
  ],
  [
   "Evergreen",
   "A plant that keeps green leaves all year"
  ],
  [
   "Annual",
   "A plant that lives one growing season"
  ],
  [
   "Biennial",
   "A plant that lives two years"
  ],
  [
   "Perennial",
   "A plant that lives for many years"
  ],
  [
   "Vascular plant",
   "A plant with tubes for carrying water and food"
  ],
  [
   "Nonvascular plant",
   "A plant without such tubes, like moss"
  ],
  [
   "Spore",
   "A tiny cell that can grow into a new fungus or fern or moss"
  ],
  [
   "Fern",
   "A plant with fronds that reproduces with spores"
  ],
  [
   "Moss",
   "A small nonvascular plant that grows in damp places"
  ],
  [
   "Tropism",
   "A plant's growth response to something like light or gravity"
  ],
  [
   "Phototropism",
   "Growing toward light"
  ],
  [
   "Gravitropism",
   "Roots growing down and shoots growing up in response to gravity"
  ],
  [
   "Dormancy",
   "A resting period when growth slows"
  ],
  [
   "Seed dispersal",
   "How seeds travel away from the parent plant"
  ],
  [
   "Bulb",
   "An underground storage stem, like an onion or tulip"
  ],
  [
   "Tuber",
   "A thick underground stem, like a potato"
  ],
  [
   "Rhizome",
   "An underground stem that spreads sideways"
  ],
  [
   "Cambium",
   "A thin growing layer that makes new wood and bark"
  ],
  [
   "Tree rings",
   "Rings in a trunk showing one year of growth each"
  ],
  [
   "Heartwood",
   "The old, dense center of a tree trunk"
  ],
  [
   "Bark",
   "The protective outer covering of a tree"
  ],
  [
   "Carnivorous plant",
   "A plant that traps and digests insects, like a Venus flytrap"
  ],
  [
   "Parasitic plant",
   "A plant that takes food from another plant"
  ],
  [
   "Epiphyte",
   "A plant that grows on another plant without harming it"
  ],
  [
   "Compost",
   "Decayed plant matter that enriches soil"
  ],
  [
   "Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium",
   "The main nutrients in fertilizer"
  ],
  [
   "What do plants release during photosynthesis?",
   "Oxygen"
  ],
  [
   "What do plants take in from air for photosynthesis?",
   "Carbon dioxide"
  ],
  [
   "Why are leaves green?",
   "They contain chlorophyll"
  ],
  [
   "Why do leaves change color in fall?",
   "Chlorophyll breaks down and other colors show"
  ],
  [
   "Sap",
   "Fluid that moves through a plant"
  ]
 ]
}