#separator:tab #html:false #tags column:4 Roots Anchor the plant and take in water and minerals bio-plants Stem Holds the plant up and carries water and food bio-plants Leaf The main place where a plant makes food bio-plants Flower The part of a plant that makes seeds bio-plants Fruit A ripened ovary that holds seeds bio-plants Seed Holds a baby plant and food to start growing bio-plants Petal Colorful part of a flower that attracts pollinators bio-plants Sepal Green leaf-like part that protects a flower bud bio-plants Stamen Male part of a flower that makes pollen bio-plants Anther Top of the stamen that holds pollen bio-plants Filament The stalk that holds up the anther bio-plants Pistil Female part of a flower bio-plants Stigma Sticky top of the pistil that catches pollen bio-plants Style Tube that connects the stigma to the ovary bio-plants Ovary Part of the pistil that holds the ovules bio-plants Ovule Part of the ovary that becomes a seed bio-plants Pollen Tiny grains that carry male cells of plants bio-plants Pollination Moving pollen to the female part of a flower bio-plants Pollinator An animal such as a bee that moves pollen bio-plants Fertilization When male and female cells join to start a seed bio-plants Germination When a seed begins to grow bio-plants Photosynthesis Plants turn light, water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen bio-plants Chlorophyll Green pigment that captures light bio-plants Stomata Tiny leaf openings that let gases in and out bio-plants Guard cells Cells that open and close the stomata bio-plants Transpiration Water evaporating from leaves bio-plants Xylem Tubes that carry water up from the roots bio-plants Phloem Tubes that carry sugar through the plant bio-plants Taproot One thick main root, like a carrot bio-plants Fibrous roots Many thin roots, like grass bio-plants Root hairs Tiny extensions that absorb water bio-plants Cotyledon A seed leaf that stores food in the seed bio-plants Monocot A flowering plant with one seed leaf, like corn and grass bio-plants Dicot A flowering plant with two seed leaves, like beans bio-plants Angiosperm A plant that makes flowers and fruits bio-plants Gymnosperm A plant with seeds not in fruit, like pine trees bio-plants Conifer A tree that makes cones, such as pine or spruce bio-plants Deciduous A tree that loses its leaves each fall bio-plants Evergreen A plant that keeps green leaves all year bio-plants Annual A plant that lives one growing season bio-plants Biennial A plant that lives two years bio-plants Perennial A plant that lives for many years bio-plants Vascular plant A plant with tubes for carrying water and food bio-plants Nonvascular plant A plant without such tubes, like moss bio-plants Spore A tiny cell that can grow into a new fungus or fern or moss bio-plants Fern A plant with fronds that reproduces with spores bio-plants Moss A small nonvascular plant that grows in damp places bio-plants Tropism A plant's growth response to something like light or gravity bio-plants Phototropism Growing toward light bio-plants Gravitropism Roots growing down and shoots growing up in response to gravity bio-plants Dormancy A resting period when growth slows bio-plants Seed dispersal How seeds travel away from the parent plant bio-plants Bulb An underground storage stem, like an onion or tulip bio-plants Tuber A thick underground stem, like a potato bio-plants Rhizome An underground stem that spreads sideways bio-plants Cambium A thin growing layer that makes new wood and bark bio-plants Tree rings Rings in a trunk showing one year of growth each bio-plants Heartwood The old, dense center of a tree trunk bio-plants Bark The protective outer covering of a tree bio-plants Carnivorous plant A plant that traps and digests insects, like a Venus flytrap bio-plants Parasitic plant A plant that takes food from another plant bio-plants Epiphyte A plant that grows on another plant without harming it bio-plants Compost Decayed plant matter that enriches soil bio-plants Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium The main nutrients in fertilizer bio-plants What do plants release during photosynthesis? Oxygen bio-plants What do plants take in from air for photosynthesis? Carbon dioxide bio-plants Why are leaves green? They contain chlorophyll bio-plants Why do leaves change color in fall? Chlorophyll breaks down and other colors show bio-plants Sap Fluid that moves through a plant bio-plants