Vocabulary N°1 "Plants"

1. Chlorophyll: a chemical that gives plants their green color and traps sunlight.

2. Photosyntesis: the process in which plants use water to, carbon dioxide, and energy from the sun to make food.

3. Vascular plant: plants that have tubelike cells in their roots, stems, and leaves to carry food and water.

4. Nonvascular plant: plants that don´t have tubelike cells in their stems and leaves.

5. Moss: a small, novascular plant that has both, stems and leaves, but not roots.

6. Sexual reproduction: the forming of a new organism from the union of two reproductive cells.

7. Egg: a female reproductive cell.

8. Sperm: a male reproductive cell.

9. Fertilization: the joining of the egg and sperm.

10. Xylem: cells that carry water and dissolved minerals fro the roots to the leaves.

 11. Phloem:  cells that carry food that is made in the leaves, to all parts of the plant.

 

12. Fern: vascular plant that reproduces with spores.

13. Seed: a part of a plant that contains a new, young part and stored food.

 

14. Embryo: an organism in its earliest stages of growth.

 

15. Conifer: a plant that produces seeds in cones.

 

16. Pollen: the tiny yellow grains of seed plants in which sperm develop.

 

17. Flowering plant:  a vascular plant that produces seeds inside a flower.

 

18. Flower: the reproductive part of a flowering plant.